An adult male goshawk perched on an aspen branch in Pinedale during April 2025. The bird-eating raptor, the larger cousin of the sharp-shinned and cooper’s hawks, appeared unperturbed ... getting hit ...

A sharp-shinned ... at the Hawk Mountain visitors center. This medium-sized raptor is sometimes called the “good hawk” because it doesn’t prey on poultry. Melissa Groo Male conservationists ...

Which made it either an immature sharp-shinned hawk or an immature Cooper’s hawk ... As is the case with most birds of prey, females can be up to 60% larger than males. So a female Coop and a male ...

Cooper’s hawks are often confused with their smaller look-alike cousin, the sharp-shinned ... female sharp-shinneds, again, larger than the males, are closer in size to male Cooper’s.

Let me say this right up front: When identifying Cooper’s and Sharp ... female sharpie can come close to the size of a small male Cooper’s, let’s parse out a few more differences. On perched birds, ...

Both moved bullet-fast: a sharp-shinned hawk in pursuit of a male cardinal. The pair made two complete circuits around a big wax myrtle bush. The hawk was a foot behind its intended prey ...

Cooper’s hawks can breed throughout the U.S. and southern Canada. As is typical for birds of prey, the female is larger than the male, allowing her to protect her nest and young during the breeding ...

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 ...

Other hawks you are likely to see in Teller County include the large bald and golden eagles and also osprey, northern goshawk and red-tailed, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks. Northern harriers ...

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 ...

“We all marveled at the show,” the post read, recounting "aerial acrobatics" and "a bit of a tussle right at eye level" between a male American kestrel and a juvenile sharp-shinned haw ...

The underlying idea of the internet of animals is to tune into the planet’s hidden phenomena — the flight paths followed by sharp-shinned hawks ... can tell us if a female is nesting and ...