Both the sharp-shinned and the Cooper’s hawk are common in and around Santa Fe, but it can be difficult to tell them apart. The biggest difference between them is size. Cooper’s hawks are about 15 ...
It was your standard November morning. I had a cup of coffee. I was adding notes on temperature and precipitation into my journal and I was keeping track of the arrival times and numbers of different ...
Researchers at the University of Kentucky turned to the platform iNaturalist for data on two hawk species. They examined nearly 80,000 images of Cooper's hawks and sharp-shinned hawks submitted by ...
One late winter day, I heard our dog barking fiercely from the yard. I went outside to find him standing about 6 feet away from a hawk that was on the ground beside our house. I grabbed the dog’s ...
Also persisting throughout the month is the south-bound migration. Shifting from the flitting of various warblers or the insect-eating swallows and flycatchers from early in the month, the songbird ...
A blue jay (top left) and an immature sharp-shinned hawk (bottom right) take flight from an eastern cottonwood during an ongoing feud that was amusing to observe. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON It ...
After lurking in deep woodlands all spring and summer, one of California’s most dashing little raptors is on the move. This diminutive forest hawk with quicksilver wing beats spends much of the year ...
Looking at our backyard bird feeding station on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there was not a bird in sight. What’s going on? It didn’t take me long to spot the issue. A sharp-shinned hawk was perched ...
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