Cooper’s Hawk Images

Cooper’s Hawk Images, Facts and Information:

Accipiter cooperii

  • Cooper’s Hawks are medium sized raptors with dark blue-gray backs, white underparts with many fine rufous bars, dark caps, red eyes, long tails with black and white banding. Juvenile and immature Cooper’s Hawks have brown backs, white underparts with fine brown streaks and yellowish eyes.
  • Some Cooper’s Hawks migrate while others are year round residents in their range. Cooper’s Hawks can be found from southern Canada, throughout the U.S. and in Mexico.
  • Cooper’s Hawks can be seen in pinyon woodlands, forested mountainous area, riparian woodlands, mixed deciduous forests, and yards in urban areas.
  • Cooper’s Hawks feed primarily on birds but will also take small mammals.
  • Cooper’s Hawks lay 4 to 5 eggs which hatch in 28 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of hawks can be called a “tower”, “knot”, “spiraling”, “stream” or “kettle” of hawks.
  • Cooper’s Hawks can live to be more than 20 years old.

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