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From: Matthew Dodder <[[email protected]]>
Subject: Re: [SBB] Hawk ID help
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:43:19 -0800
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All,

My two cents: Looks like an imm. Cooper's Hawk to me, but perhaps more 
than one individual.

The wings short of the tail by a good margin (marking it as an 
Accipiter)
Similarly, the tail is heavily barred, quite long and white-tipped. 
(Accipter)
The eyes are placed forward on the head (differentiating it from the 
smaller, but similar Sharp-shin).
This gives the bird a relatively fiercome expression. Sharpies tend to 
look more crazed (bug-eyed...)
The head is rather flat (looks a bit capped in some shots). Sharpies 
have more rounded heads.
The tarsus is pretty heavy (again, to differentiate it from a Sharpie 
which has razor thin legs)
There are more records of breeding Cooper's Hawk in the area (often in 
residential neigborhoods) than Sharpies.

Matthew Dodder
http://www.birdguy.net

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