Coopers Hawk
Coopers Hawk
The vertical streaking on the breast and the yellow eyes indicate this is an immature. Yellow eyes in most hawks indicate immaturity. Orange or red eyes and a horizontal striped breast indicate a mature Coopers Hawk.
Coopers Hawks are attracted to bird feeders, but they are not there for the seeds!
If a hawk is nearby most of the feeder birds vanish or freeze in place hoping not to be noticed. These agile, reckless predators fly in low and hope to catch a flock of birds by surprise. Occasionally they are successful and all you will see is an explosion of feathers as the talons grab hold.
(some photos may be disturbing to the faint hearted)
This mature hawk ends his hunt by squeezing his prey, and although you will feel pity for the bird that is about to become lunch, you might want to give a thought to the hawk, too. He faces danger each time he attacks. One of his biggest enemies is trees. He hits branches as he hurtles through the trees on his chase that often result in broken bones.
Birds of prey can only eat other animals to survive. They cannot, like we humans, get their protein from vegetable sources.
Coopers Hawks can live up to 12 years but their daredevil lifestyle usually doesn't allow for long lives.
If an immature hawk does not learn how fly and catch enough food to sustain it during the summer when food is plentiful, it is sure to perish from starvation during the winter.
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Wow, we have three hawk types here that look very similar to your hawk Lady Melinda.
The African Cuckoo-Hawk, African Goshawk and the Shikra and they all operate in the same way as yours.
Excellent hunters and yes, they can barrel through trees like rockets very often picking up some damages.
A lovely hawk this Coopers Hawk of yours.
We have 8 different types of Hawks here in Wisconsin, Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, the Northern Goshawk, the Red-Shouldered Hawk, the Broad-Winged Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, the Red-Tailed Hawk and the Rough-Legged Hawk.
But the ones I see most frequently are the Coopers Hawk and the SharpShinned Hawk. It is difficult to differentiate between the two as the main way to identify is a slight size difference. I also see Red-Tailed Hawks quite often.
I read that eagles are the main predators of hawks.
You certainly have a great collection of hawks over there Lady Melinda.
From what I have seen, I think that man is a greater threat to hawks than eagles.
We buried a young one that was struck be a car last year and the chicken farmers shoot and poison hawks.
As sad story.
That is sad, but I can understand that they feel that must protect their flocks from predators. I wonder how many chickens they actually loose each year.
The problem is that if a raptor lifts one chicken succesfully, he will return every day and take another one. So over a month it means 30 chickens gone. If other raptors see this they will join in and the feathers that they drop will draw the jackals and the foxes, which is very bad news for any farmer.
A fox in a chicken coop is a nightmare, as he doesn't just kill one chicken, but maim many.
There are ways to prevent this, but it costs money and many of the poorer farmers cannot afford it.
So yes, the raptors shall suffer.
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What an amazing bird and photographs! Yesterday I saw an owl on the roof and the birds around the owl went crazy. I guess the owl preys on the young and vulnerable small birds. That is the cycle of life!
Eagles eat hawks and hawks eat starlings! There are not many owls around here any more. I used to hear them often.
Same here. It was the first time in years that we saw an owl. But they are stealth creatures after all!
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I love these birds, I have learned to love them since my son lives in the south and I start to see them often in his videos.
what interesting information you give us to know. Thanks a lot
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Thanks! How is your son doing? Such a big adventure for him. Is your wife still with him?
if it is a real adventure for him. My wife left there today, she is arriving here on Monday.
Thank you very much for asking, I take this opportunity to wish you a splendid afternoon
Is your wife traveling by bus? How far away is your son?
My wife travels by plane, with a stopover in Buenos Aires. from there by bus to our city. To get home he has to cross the entire country, my son lives in the last city in the south of the country and we live in the last city in the northeast
Great shots of our predator friend
Thanks! They are incredible birds!
Fantastic. Love shot 4 with the foot on the prey. While maybe a little graphic for some of the folks, excellent shot of the hawk showing possession and ownership of her/his prey and successful hunt to ensure survival.
Thanks! I hesitated to post those pictures because I know some people are offended by them, but those of us that live amongst nature see these things happen frequently.
Wonderful nature pictures and great tutorial about hawks. Really a nice one.
Thanks so much! They are beautiful birds!
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Cooper's hawks?? That name sound so new to me though. I wonder if the species are quite spread all over the world
Yours, Piotr
They are a North American bird found in the USA, Southern Canada and down into Mexico. Except for a slight size difference they are difficult to differentiate from the Sharp shinned Hawk.
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Pretty! They are crafty, hawks. They frequent my parents' feeder, too, scaring smaller birds into the windows so that they flop around stunned and make for an easy meal.
Same here. Poor mourning doves are usually the victims! It's good that they are so prolific!
Nice lifestyle of Coopers Hawk.
Thanks. Do you see hawks there?
Those are some really unique photos. Did you take them all your self?
All photos are my own. I source images and text that does not belong to me.
Can you clarify please?
If I use anything that I take from anywhere on the internet I say where I found it. Otherwise it is stealing. Using someone else's work without giving credit and saying where I found it is plagerism.
Does that help?
Totally. I figured they were your own i was more impressed at the images then asking if they are 'actually' your images. Thanks for clarifying.
Hawks are fast and I did not know that they can harm themselves hitting tree branches.
I wish I have a chance to see a hawk as close.
This one landed in a small tree just outside my window. I was quite surprised to see him there. He was hoping to go unnoticed as he planned a bird feeder raid. It was not successful.
Birds of prey are always fascinating in flight and fight to remain alive, nature of the bird is to find food and this one is a healthy specimen photographed.
Having larger predatory birds although sad do help keep numbers down. With development accelerated in our immediate vivacity we don't see as many as we once did, they are still here just not quite the numbers there were previously.
I love these hunting Coopers Hawks they are so intelligent.