The flight profile of a sharp-shinned is like a flying "T" because the head seems level with the leading edge of the wings. The flight profile of a Cooper's hawk is like a flying cross with the ...

The sharp-shinned hawk ... daintily plucks its meal and begins ... relies on surprise. Attacks flying or perched prey. Capture follows short chase or stealthy approach initiated from perch or ...

Because female sharp-shinned hawks could be nearly the same size as male Cooper’s hawks and vice versa, be careful in judging size. In flight, a Cooper’s hawk looks like a flying cross ...

The sharp-shinned hawk, commonly called a sharpie ... who photographed a determined-looking sharpie flying a migratory path about 100 miles north of Spokane. What about the sharpies that stay ...

The sharp-shinned hawk is the compact car in a group of hawks known as Accipiters. The related Cooper’s hawk is the mid-size version, and the northern goshawk is the full-size model. Accipiters ...

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 ...

Janelle Long was walking up to the bird counting platform at Hawk Ridge when a sharp-shinned hawk fluttered ... and this one was flying through the teeth of a cold, easterly blow off Lake Superior.

Then, a blue jay appeared and the mystery was no longer a mystery. Unbeknownst to me, a sharp-shinned hawk had been sitting in the large Eastern cottonwood tree that grows next to my deck. The blue ...

A sharp-shinned hawk will likely be the culprit. This hawk will often fly up and land in a nearby tree, on top of a fencepost or some other lofty perch and watch small birds at a feeder ...

Both Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks (sharpies to ... types of hawk (like a falcon or a red-tailed hawk) by their short rounded wings - for flying in the close quarters of a dense woods ...