Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii

Description

• Slate gray above, with fine rust barring below
• Tail is rounded at tip, distinguishing it from the Sharp-shin Hawk

Size

• Length: 14-20" (35-51 cm)
• Wingspan: 28" (.7 m)

Range

• Forests near meadows and clearings
• Southern Canada and all of the United States south as far as Florida, Texas and north-western Mexico
• Winters north to southern New England and British Columbia

Diet

• Medium-sized birds: starlings, robins, blackbirds, meadowlarks
• Chipmunks and squirrels

Voice

• "Cack-cack-cack-cack"
• Scream
• Nestlings: "tsee-ar"

Nesting

• Platform of sticks and twigs 10-60 ft above ground
• Lay 4 dull white brown-spotted eggs tended by the female
• Eggs incubate for 24 days
• Fledgelings leave the nest at 30-34 days after hatching

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