The Cheyenne Big Day is all about counting as many species of birds as we can in one calendar day. The Cheyenne High Plains ...

The Cooper’s Hawk is an accipiter, which the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America describes as an agile woodland Hawk with comparatively long tail and short rounded wings.

What Does It Mean if You See a Hawk? Both Dubois and Wilson agree hawk sightings can be deeply significant. "Seeing a hawk denotes guardianship and power," explains Wilson. "Hawks are known as the ...

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs wore hawk feathers and headdresses to symbolize Ra, the sun god, who took the form of a hawk. Hawks were believed to be mediators between gods and humans, guiding souls ...

Few people on Earth ever have matched the bird-watching numbers of Bob Hargis. Across more than 50 years of birding around the world, Bob Hargis of Riverton has seen and identified more than 6,000 ...

The streaks on a Cooper’s hawk’s breast are dark and thin, where the ones on a sharp-shinned are ruddier and broader. You can sometimes tell a Coop from a sharpy by size, as Coops, on average, are ...

1. Sharp-shinned Hawk, immature: Note short, stocky wings and body, long slim tail that is short for an accipiter, and small head. Plumage is difficult to see on distant birds, but 1st-years lack a ...

Cooper’s hawks are often confused with their smaller look-alike cousin, the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus). At a glance, the two species appear identical, but the “sharpie” is ...

Both moved bullet-fast: a sharp-shinned hawk in pursuit of a male cardinal. The pair made two complete circuits around a big wax myrtle bush.