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The “chicken hawk” of colonial America, this medium-sized accipiter is a common sight at home bird feeders across the country, swooping in to nab an unwary dove or jay. Females are larger and ...

Vladimir Dinets, an animal behaviorist at the University of Tennessee, reported that he observed Cooper's hawks (Accipiter cooperii), a medium-sized bird of prey native to North America, hunting ...