Accipiters
Description:
Stocky body.
Medium size accipiter.
Short rounded wings.
Long rounded tail with bands.
They fly with powerful shallow wing beats that come from the shoulder. They tend to fly with flat wings or with minimum dihedral.
Often found around woods and will hunt birds at feeders.
Compared to a Sharp-shinned Hawk:
Cooper’s Hawks are larger.
The Sharp-shinned Hawk has a shorter head and it appears “tucked into the shoulders” because the Sharpie flies with its wings more forward than the Cooper’s Hawk.
They have less squared “hands”.
ID - COHA2
ID - COHA4
ID - COHA12
ID - COHA5