#accipiters

[cathartidae]

ALL DONE!! progress pics + ref under cut

big fans of these guys

[tinylongwing]

Had a request for some merch with this absolutely goofy Cooper’s Hawk. Raptors are truly dorks sometimes. Looks like Society6 is doing a year end sale so now is a good time to check it out if you like stickers, coffee mugs, pillows, tote bags - or whatever, haha.

[wingedjewels]

Coopers Hawk about to takeoff by doug0013 Via Flickr: Sunnyvale Baylands Park, Sunnyvale CA.

[merelygifted]

I love that in every image, the hawk’s goin’ “Hey! Why are you messing with my wing while numbnuts over there takes a picture?  Is this one of those stupid social media challenges or some such BS?!”

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

[herpsandbirds]

Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), male, family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Kuwait

photograph by Shajahan Valiyakath

[occasionallybirds]

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)

February 10, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[njere]

Accipiter pecten oculi

[sugiichi]

Accipiter gularis [ツミ,Japanese sparrowhawk]

何を見つめているのかな？

[fullfrontalbirds]

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)

© Jim Carroll

[alonglistofbirds]

[2672/11080] Cooper's hawk - Accipiter cooperii

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae

Photo credit: Anne-Marie Dufour via Macaulay Library

[crazycritterlife]

Happy 10th birthday, Kai!! I can’t believe we’ve been together that long

[kavohh707]

Another guest in my backyard this week. A fledgling Eurasian sparrowhawk. He wasn't very good at flying and spent quite some time on the ground so that I could take pictures from the balcony. Soon the mother flew by with a dead blackbird that she caught and that was the incentive for the young one to give flying another try.

While I find those birds really interesting, I at least partly blame the fact that they nest in my neighborhood also for the lack of fledgling crows this year, The sparrowhawk pair plus the buzzard I see every now have surly been responsible. Nature in the city becomes more diverse and so the predators come as well.

[jennrosefx]

I don’t post enough, so please enjoy this curious Coop Kid being ADORABLE. They’re one of four kids from a nest down the street, and watching them learn how to be functioning hawks is my favorite thing in the world.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Northern Goshawk

Photo: Andrey Gulivanov

"A powerful predator of northern and mountain woods. Goshawks hunt inside the forest or along its edge; they take their prey by putting on short bursts of amazingly fast flight, often twisting among branches and crashing through thickets in the intensity of pursuit. In some years, perhaps when prey is scarce in the north, autumn invasions may bring Goshawks well to the south of their normal range in the east and into lowland valleys in the west."

- Audubon Field Guide

[herpsandbirds]

I saw this large borb today!

Hawk ID - PA, USA:

Hello, yes this birb friend is a Cooper's Hawk (Astur cooperii), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes.

Cooper's Hawk Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cooper's hawk - Wikipedia

Cooper's Hawks were put into the resurrected genus Astur in 2024.

[meklarian]

Sharp-Shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Agua Caliente Park Tanque Verde, Arizona, USA November, 2019

(more hawks here)