In Wheeler and Clark's Photographic Guide to North American Raptors it says
that the Cooper's Hawk juveniles eyes are straw colored and that
Sharp-shinned Hawks juvenile eyes are yellow. I don't see any difference in
his pictures.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Lars Per Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
*
I always assumed all imm. Accipiters had a yellow iris. Anyone else
have knowledge of this?
Lars
On Jan 31, 2017, at 9:19 AM, Jeff Dillon wrote:
Just tossing this out there but looking at Wheeler's book on Raptors of
Western North America, he points out that the iris color for immature
sharp-shinned hawks is a medium yellow iris while immature Cooper's have a
pale gray iris. In the photo provided,
the iris appears to be a yellow color which according to Wheeler would
make it a sharp-shinned hawk.
Jeff Dillon
Gladstone, Oregon
