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A young Cooper's hawk makes use of a large roadside puddle as a bath. Cooper's hawk is a typical Accipiter in all respects. [2] This species tends to be active earlier in the morning than sharp-shinned hawks and Eurasian sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus) and is generally much more likely to be active in the morning than in the afternoon. [111]
Left to right: Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, and the red-tailed hawk (not to scale). In the United States, chickenhawk or chicken hawk is an unofficial designation for three species of North American hawks in the family Accipitridae: Cooper's hawk (also called a quail hawk), the sharp-shinned hawk, and the Buteo species red-tailed hawk.
Mountain hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus nipalensis Hodgson, 1836: 75 Blyth's hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus alboniger Blyth, 1845: 76 Javan hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus bartelsi (Stresemann, 1924) 77 Sulawesi hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus lanceolatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) 78 Pinsker's hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus ...
First, a male and a female fly together in a circular motion. Once they reach a certain height, the male dives toward the female before ascending back to that height. The two birds repeat this until the male latches onto the female, and they begin to free-fall towards the ground. In one year, a female hawk will lay about five eggs.
Canada goose Female mallard in flight Pair of green-winged teals, male at rear Pair of hooded mergansers, male at rear. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae. The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans.
Sharp-shinned hawk: Accipiter striatus fringilloides (Es) Cooper's hawk: Accipiter cooperii (R) Gundlach's hawk: Accipiter gundlachi (E) endangered Bald eagle: Haliaeetus leucocephalus (R) Mississippi kite: Ictinia mississippiensis: Snail kite: Rostrhamus sociabilis: Cuban black hawk: Buteogallus gundlachii (E) Near-threatened Broad-winged hawk
It was a hawk that was making swift strafing runs at the turkey brood. What would the mother hen do? A flash of motion caught my attention. It was a hawk that was making swift strafing runs at the ...
They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Twelve species have been recorded in Maine. Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio (R except in York County) Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus; Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus; Northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula