Anyone know what bird this is?

[Revalos]

Saw this one this morning in my backyard in College Park, MD. I think I've seen it before but never been able to snap a picture. It hangs out right there in the morning sometimes...right next to the bird feeder. Must like fast food. Anyone know what kind of bird it is?

http://fileserver7.jpghosting.com/images/Bird_d7e350c18fac1e42ff1b1072b88db00b.jpg
http://fileserver7.jpghosting.com/images/Bird2_d3b3664f6284556f318185b189beea3e.jpg

[Sam]

Are you an old lady?

[Beguiler]

looks like some kind of small hawk or maybe falcon..

[Seran]

The fast food it prefers would be the small animals that eat from the bird feeder mostly.

[Revalos]

Are you an old lady?

If thinking birds of prey are cool makes me an old lady, I'm Margret Thatcher.

[Geijon Khyree]

http://www.whatbird.com/

It came up with an Owl on my first try, but I know thats wrong. I think it's a type of Hawk or a Brown Eagle. It's claws and beak are really distinctive traits, but I can't be certain.

I'm not a huge bird guy. I'll keep trying some functions at the above website though and see if I can't locate it for certain.

This site is great. It's gotta be a hawk.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1189

[Paradii]

I'd call it a juvenile Cooper's Hawk. Raptors aren't my thing, but that is definitely a juvenile accipiter.

[Numbers]

Definitely a hawk, you can tell by the eyes. Hard to tell without a size comparison, though. Possibly a broad winged hawk or a young ferruginous hawk.

Edit: And yeah, it could also definitely be a Cooper's hawk like Paradii said, but all puffed up.

[Revalos]

I'd call it a juvenile Cooper's Hawk. Raptors aren't my thing, but that is definitely a juvenile accipiter.

Looks pretty similar to me.

http://www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com/d/832-3/coopers_hawk_F5R7994-01.jpg

[ElvenFury]

I'd call it a juvenile Cooper's Hawk. Raptors aren't my thing, but that is definitely a juvenile accipiter.


Definitely a hawk, you can tell by the eyes. Hard to tell without a size comparison, though. Possibly a broad winged hawk or a young ferruginous hawk.

Yeah, the eyes say it's a hawk. I'm going to go with Paradii and say that it's a cooper, or possibly a juvinile red tailed, but I'm no expert.

ETA: It could probably be a juvinile anything, since they all seem to look like that picture until they grow older.

[Geijon Khyree]

Based on the second website I linked a Cooper's Hawk seems like our best bet as Elven Fury, err I mean Paradii, mentioned. If you check the website it's very likely. It's described as a broad-wing hawks cousin with longer tail feathers.

I think we have a winner.

Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Juvenile_Accipiter_cooperii.jpg

[ElvenFury]

Based on the second website I linked a Cooper's Hawk seems like our best bet as Elven Fury mentioned. If you check the website it's very likely. It's described as a broad-wing hawks cousin with longer tail feathers.

I think we have a winner.

Yes, the idea was all mine. I get credit. ALL MINE!!!!!

[RSR]

Looks like it's most likely a sharp-shinned hawk. Possibly a cooper's hawk.

-Richard.

[Numbers]

Now that you know what it is, you can safely kill it and eat it.

[Paradii]

Juveniles suck to ID, but that guy is lacking a distinctive white eye brow that a lot of other juvenile hawks have, such as red tails, sharp-shinned, and goshawks.

[Geijon Khyree]

Fun exercise finding that out. We should do a daily like this. ID this animal, picture, food, porn star.

[ElvenFury]

Fun exercise finding that out. We should do a daily like this. ID this animal, picture, food, porn star.

Sean probably has a few genital skin problems that he can't afford to have diagnosed by a professional...

[RSR]

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/accipiterphoto.htm

-Richard.

[LMingrone]

Looks like a Krider's Red-Tailed hawk I had in my backyard, although the eyes look different. Could also be a Ferruginiousor or a Swainson's Hawk.
/bird watcher. Have almost all Northeastern birds crossed off my list

[pabstblueribbon]

Looks like a small redtail hawk.

[Paradii]

Fun exercise finding that out. We should do a daily like this. ID this animal, picture, food, porn star.


ID these animals attacking me:
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q169/dnonne1/P1020730.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q169/dnonne1/P1020752.jpg

[ElvenFury]

Canada goose and arctic tern?

[Paradii]

Canada goose and arctic tern?

It's a goose, not canada. The tern is correct.

[droit]

A brant goose and some sort of tern?

[LMingrone]

The Ferr:http://www.photographytips.com/images/rhonda-spencer-ferruginous-hawk.jpg

[Paradii]

The Ferr:http://www.photographytips.com/images/rhonda-spencer-ferruginous-hawk.jpg

Smug looking piece of shit.

[radamanthys]

I'm gonna go with Northern Goshawk. Imm. Coopers' have white undertail coverts.

http://www.falconerschoice.com/HPIM0813.JPG

[Paradii]

I'm gonna go with Northern Goshawk. Imm. Coopers' have white undertail coverts.


Nah, a juvenile goshawk's banding is really wavy, you can see this guy has a straight bar. The fence is blocking out the white bands in the second picture.

Goshawks have a much bolder eyebrow as well. The chest isn't quite right either.

[phantasm]

When you see a hawk in nature, its a sign you need to open your eyes and be more aware for the rest of the day.

[Killer Kitten]

I sent the pictures to my old boss at the zoo, he spent 27 years as a bird keeper and knows his birds really well. He says it's a young Coopers Hawk, though a broad-tailed hawk is a close look-a-like.
I'll side with Jim (my old boss). So toss in my vote for Coopers Hawk.

[pabstblueribbon]

Sniiiiiiiiiipe!!!

If you get that then, u are ze rock

[grenthor]

Aside from general looks the other reason I'd go with a Coopers Hawk is that in a suburban setting Coopers frequently hang out by bird feeders and pickoff incoming birds.

[Kyra231]

Rehabbed 2 of them back in MI. Def a Coopers.

[Paradii]

I'd call it a juvenile Cooper's Hawk. Raptors aren't my thing, but that is definitely a juvenile accipiter.

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I sent the pictures to my old boss at the zoo, he spent 27 years as a bird keeper and knows his birds really well. He says it's a young Coopers Hawk, though a broad-tailed hawk is a close look-a-like.
I'll side with Jim (my old boss). So toss in my vote for Coopers Hawk.


Aside from general looks the other reason I'd go with a Coopers Hawk is that in a suburban setting Coopers frequently hang out by bird feeders and pickoff incoming birds.


Rehabbed 2 of them back in MI. Def a Coopers.


Mrmm, ok. Unless you were saying "wrong, raptors are your thing."