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Cooper's hawk (Astur cooperii) is a medium-sized hawk native to the North American continent and found from southern Canada to Mexico. [2] This species was formerly placed in the genus Accipiter. As in many birds of prey, the male is smaller than the female. [3]
Genus Astur – Lacépède, 1799 – nine species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Cooper's hawk. Astur cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) southern Canada to Mexico: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Gundlach's hawk. Astur gundlachi (Lawrence, 1860)
Similarly, the very small south America tiny hawk and semicollared hawk were found to be only distantly related to species in Accipiter. They were moved to a newly erected genus Microspizias which together with Harpagus is placed in the subfamily Harpaginae. The genera Circus, Megatriorchis, and Erythrotriorchis were found to be nested within ...
The subfamily Accipitrinae contains the genus Accipiter as well as the genera Micronisus (Gabar goshawk), Urotriorchis (long-tailed hawk), and Megatriorchis (Doria's goshawk). Melierax (chanting goshawk) may be included in the subfamily or given a subfamily of its own.
This may be in part due to heavier competition from a greater diversity of raptors in North America. In Europe, the goshawk only co-exists with the much smaller sparrowhawk within its own genus, while in North America, it lives with the intermediately-sized Cooper's hawk. The latter species much more readily nests in semi-open and developed ...
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.
The genus Accipiter was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. [2] The type species is the Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus). [3] The name is Latin for "hawk", from accipere, "to grasp". [4]
Wallace's hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus nanus (Wallace, 1868) 73 Legge's hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus kelaarti (Legge, 1878) 74 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 ...