[Umpqua Birds] Hawk I.D. Help
- From: Elizabeth Gayner <egayner@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Umpqua Audubon Birds <umpquabirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:19:02 -0700
Based on your description I thought it might be a red shouldered hawk. But
I zoomed in on the photos and I think it might be a juvenile Cooper's hawk.
As others have indicated, it certainly doesn't have a body like a buteo,
but more like an accipter. It also appears to have tear-drop shaped
markings on it's breast which would indicate a juvenile if indeed a
Copper's hawk.
Liz Gayner
Roseburg
On Oct 11, 2014 12:43 PM, "Toni M" <creekwood@xxxxxxxxxx
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','creekwood@xxxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
> If anyone is familiar w/hawks, PLEASE provide any help/thoughts to
> help identify this hawk (
> http://s865.photobucket.com/user/TeeMcDee/media/100_1468.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0.
> There are 3 photos (sorry for poor quality-it flew off if I came any
> closer). They are new to my So/East County area. The bird is not large, as
> it struggled to drag a collared dove up a sloped area. It is brown on top
> but there seems to be some rufous? coloring around the shoulders. It had a
> long tail which appeared to be banded??. The red tailed hawks that are
> commonly found here are gone for the winter. Previously sighted hawks
> include sharp-shinned, Cooper's, Pygmy.
>
> Toni M
> South County
>
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