#accipiters

[cathartidae]

ALL DONE!! progress pics + ref under cut

big fans of these guys

[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

[geopsych]

Forgot to post this garden visitor from a couple days ago. Looked fierce but also fluffy.

Juvenile male Coopers or female sharpshin hawk judging from size.

[occasionallybirds]

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)

February 10, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[njere]

Accipiter pecten oculi

[fullfrontalbirds]

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)

© Jim Carroll

[sugiichi]

Accipiter gularis [ツミ,Japanese sparrowhawk]

何を見つめているのかな？

[ospreyarts]

The smallest species of hawk in the USA, the Sharp-Shinned Hawk!

This wood burning is for sale on my Etsy shop!

[crazycritterlife]

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

[raw-wild]

Sharp-shinned Hawk in eastern PA taking down a Northern Flicker. This was a brutal attack, the flickers mate screaming from a treetop, the fallen prey struggling to get away and the hawk applying a stranglehold around the flickers neck. It may have lasted over 15 mins before the hawk could begin pecking.

Sharp-shinned Hawk & Northern Flicker | Mark Cappozzoli

[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.

[meklarian]

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

(more hawks here)

[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.

[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

[ciusagi]

Eurasian Goshawk - 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴 [x]

2024.5.25.