Re: [cobirds] Re: Hawk Identification help please

Thank you Brian!  And to John for being the brightest bulb by sending this to Brian.

Ira Sanders

Golden

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 4:46 AM John Vanderpoel <jvanderpoel@peregrinevideo.com> wrote:

I took the liberty of sending the photo to Brian Wheeler and he agrees with David.  Here is what Brian said:

 

A juvenile Cooper's Hawk.  An accipiter by very long tail. A Cooper's Hawk because it has the longest tail of the three species. 

This bird shows a very long distance from the primary tips to the tail tip is quite an amount.

 

This bird shows a pale supercilium, which is more associated with juvenile Northern Goshawk; however, many juvenile Cooper's Hawks also show this mark.

 

Markings on wing align with Cooper's Hawk. Pale edging on median and greater coverts but lack of pale bar on greater coverts rules out most Northern Goshawks. 

 

 

Best,

 

Brian 

 

 

From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Tønnessen
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 9:39 PM
To: Colorado Birds
Subject: [cobirds] Re: Hawk Identification help please

 

This is no Mississippi Kite, and the more slender-chested build and clean white throat point away from a young Northern Goshawk, which would be quite the find for Weld County this time of year anyway. This is a Cooper's Hawk.

 

 

David Tonnessen

Colorado Springs, CO

 

 

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