This diminutive forest hawk with quicksilver wing beats spends much of the year darting among trees and shrubs and pouncing on unsuspecting chickadees, sparrows and other small songbirds.

The sharp-shinned hawk has a small, rounded head with a gray cap extending from the crown to the nape. The Cooper's hawk has a large, block-shaped head with a dark cap contrasting with a pale nape.

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 ...

BRAVERY & BRAVADO Unbeknownst to me, a sharp-shinned hawk had been sitting in the large Eastern cottonwood tree that grows next to my deck. The blue jay, having had enough of the hawk, decided to come ...

Sharp-shinned (10-14 inches in length) and Cooper's hawks (14-20 inches) are similar in appearance. Adults are slate blue above and barred rusty brown beneath, with short rounded wings and long ...

She said it made her day. Hawk Watch International has been counting birds at Bonney Butte since 1994 and has been capturing and banding them since 1995.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, sharp-shinned hawk numbers declined in North America, probably as a result of the use of DDT and other pesticides. Their populations in the U.S. and Canada have since ...

The sharp-shinned hawk is larger than the kestrel, which is another hawk that may come to a bird feeder to catch and eat a songbird. All three of these hawks are native to Southeast Missouri.

General description: The sharp-shinned hawk is the smallest and most numerous of the accipiters, a family of 58 forest-dwelling raptor species with short, rounded wings and long tails. In eastern ...

Sharp-shinned hawks breed in Alaska and Canada, and spend their winters in Panama. During migration, they stop over at points in between, and Orange County is on the list.

The sharp-shinned, the smallest hawk in North America, is 9 to 13-inches long with a 17 to 22-inch wingspan. The female sharp-shinned is one-third larger than the male.

Both Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawk populations appear to be stable, even rising in this area. There had been an observed decline in the number of sharp-shinned hawks migrating south from New ...