Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Dinusaur on October 12, 2017, 06:23:20 PM

Title: Hawk ID
Post by: Dinusaur on October 12, 2017, 06:23:20 PM

Is the first picture that of a Sharp-shinned or Cooper's? The unequal tail feathers got me baffled. For comparison, the juvenile Cooper's in picture 2 shows much greater variation of tail feather lengths.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4489/23808921698_66e406b1b5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CgUWVY)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4459/37403647810_cc10244de6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YZetnu)

Title: Re: Hawk ID
Post by: lucky tern on October 13, 2017, 02:29:34 PM

cooper's i think...blocky head, small eye compared to head.  Tail feathers in sitting birds is usually pretty hard to judge IMO.