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

Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned Hawks (let’s call them sharpies) are exciting birds and cunning hunters. Along with the Northern Goshawk they make up the North American accipiters—forest hawks with short ...

The subtle art of distinguishing Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks is beyond the scope of this column, but some broadly shared characteristics of the two local Accipiter hawks can be mentioned here.

The most banded species this season was the northern saw-whet owl at 142 birds, followed by the sharp-shinned hawk (136), red-tailed hawk (117), merlin (49), Cooper's hawk (41) and peregrine ...

They've been getting shots of northern harriers, broad-winged hawks, red-shouldered hawks and sharp-shinned hawk, which have a distinct fluttering flying pattern, Sage points out, "That's just how ...

Georgia’s hawk species include red-shouldered, red-tailed, broad-winged, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks. A sixth hawk species, the Northern harrier, is a winter-only resident that is ...

The sharp-shinned hawk, commonly called a sharpie, ... “You need to know what to look for,” particularly because they are similar in appearance to their cousin, the Cooper’s hawk, he said.

Can you resolve the great hawk vs. falcon debate? You spot a bird of prey, and your friend says it's a peregrine falcon but her partner says it's a hawk.

While many of us were feasting on a bird for our Thanksgiving meal, so were some of these small but skilled hawks in our open spaces and backyards. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help ...

Cooper’s hawks and sharp-shinned hawks are slender, long-tailed raptors that prey chiefly upon birds, the larger Cooper’s hawks favoring doves and robins and the sharp-shinned hawks taking ...

I gently reached. I gently resumed my original position and the hawk hadn’t moved. The photo gods were with me! The sharp-shinned hawk is the smallest member of a group of raptors known as the ...