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Accipiter striatus
Dark brown back and upperparts; the tail is brown with dark bars, wings have mottled whites patches. Underparts are white with many rusty thick strikes. Sharp shinned has round head and looks shrot necked.
Backyards.
That hawk was trying to hunt unsuccessfully the sparrows hiding in the scrubs in my backyard. Each time one sparrow was flying away, the young hawk was chasing it ... until the next scrub. It last half an hour before it gave up!
Spotted on Sep 18, 2011
Submitted on Apr 26, 2012
13 Comments
Done: join "Raptors of North America"
Project Noah has recently increased the boundaries of the mission "Raptors of Colorado" to include all of North America, and is now called (drumroll please!) "Raptors of North America". I would love it if you would consider adding this and any other raptor spottings (birds of prey) to the following: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8627...
Thank you!
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thank you Emma confirming the ID.
thank you Liam to have followed up. what is sure is that id juveniles is tricky!
okay. I did had a closer look and dig deeper for that bird. I finally agree with Liam because of th elack of neck, the breast pattern that is thicker than for Cooper's and extend down the belly and fork shaped tail. Rather a sharp-shin than a Cooper's.
You're right Liam, sharp-shins have wedge tails and cooper's have a more fan shaped tail and usually lack that noticeable notch.
It's a juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk due to eye placement, square tail, breast pattern, and apparent size.
The problem is that juveniles of cooper's, sharp shinned, northern goshawk .. looks similar. I don't know really, and I saw that hawk only that time, so I cannot verify or compare.
Could you verify as well my id on these 2 spottings? will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/101...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/101...
I stopped on that one as well, to finally decide for red-tailed... But you are right, the juvenile cooper's hawk have less dark stripes on the tail than red-tailed hawk and white supercilium (as per my picture). Thank you!
Looks like a Cooper's Hawk or a Sharp Shinned.
Nice shot! Definitely not a Red-Tail...I agree with Josh that it is probably a young Coop!
Isn't that a young Cooper's hawk?