The “blue flash” will be either a sharp-shinned or a Cooper's hawk, the infamous "chicken ... [while] the largest was a Ruffed Grouse. ... A female sharp-shinned captured during spring ...

We have two species of forest hawks: the American goshawk and the much smaller sharp ... goshawks. Male chicks develop faster and leave the nest two to four days sooner than their female siblings.

Sharp-shinned hawks are smaller than Cooper’s ... and female Cooper’s which can be quite large. Female sharp-shins and male Cooper’s are the ones that present challenges.

Thus, a small male Cooper’s hawk can often look like a carbon copy of a female sharp-shinned hawk, sometimes frustrating birders that like to keep meticulous records of their sightings.

The larger Cooper’s hawk specializes on capturing bigger prey than the sharp-shinned ... and a male Cooper’s is not much larger than a large female sharp-shin. By land or by air: Overhead ...

Almost identical in size, a young male sharp-shinned hawk and an adult blue jay have very little to fear from one another. That does not change the attitude of the jays, however. A sharp-shinned ...

The red-tailed hawk is one of the largest birds to inhabit North America, and the female is noticeably larger ... than smaller hawks like Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks. Scott Davis of Union ...

The sharp-shinned hawk (accipiter striatus ... Sharpies nest from April to July, and females lay four or five eggs. Both the female and male incubate the eggs, which hatch in about 35 days.

I have been thinking a lot about the hawks who return to live in my backyard late eachspring. Are they Cooper’s hawks? Sharp-shinned ... association with the female might make one think that ...

Almost identical in size, a young male sharp-shinned hawk and an adult blue jay have very little to fear from one another. That does not change the attitude of the jays, however. A sharp-shinned hawk ...

It said, “Struggling to separate a sharp-shinned hawk from a Cooper’s? Amazed when a bald eagle is spotted high in the sky where you see nothing?” YES and YES, I thought! Unfortunately for ...

One late winter day, I heard our dog barking fiercely from the yard. I went outside to find him standing about 6 feet away from a hawk that was on the ground beside our house. I grabbed the dog’s ...