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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Wringer on November 01, 2007, 02:19:25 PM

Title: RFI Raptor - Hawk
Post by: Wringer on November 01, 2007, 02:19:25 PM

We were walking along the edge of a park and flushed this bird up into the overhanging trees. He was feeding on a rabbit - possibly carrion(?).

He wasn't too shy and hung around long enough for me to go home (close by) and get my camera. If I got too close for him he just went up to a higher branch. Roughly 16 inches from head to tail - the tail was squared off and barred.

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Thanks

Title: Juvenile Cooper's Hawk
Post by: Iain on November 01, 2007, 03:07:36 PM

Looks like a juvenile Cooper's Hawk.  Possibly a large Sharp-shinned but it has the 'feel' of a Cooper's to me.

Iain

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Post by: Carl-Adam on November 01, 2007, 08:09:13 PM

I agree with Iain!

Title: Cooper's
Post by: thouc on November 02, 2007, 01:34:22 PM

The tail looks rounded, so I agree with Cooper's.

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Post by: Wringer on November 06, 2007, 11:34:46 AM

Thanks.

We saw the same bird (we think) on the weekend on the ridge line behind our house and a hundred meters or so from where I photographed it. It was being harrassed by a couple of crows. But he was feisty and gave as good as he got. The crows gave up and left finally.
 He was about 2/3 to 3/4 the size of the crows.