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Posted by userb3 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 4, 10 at 13:35
| Can anyone tell me what this bird was that was in my backyard in W. PA ? My novice guess is an immature Cooper's or maybe even a N. Goshawk. |
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| Goshawks are awesome spectacular hawks. Cooper's hawks are awesome. This is an awesome, female, immature Cooper's hawk. Female Goshawks are the size of Redtails in length, and just as heavy. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Gos
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I had first leaned towards the Cooper's and then the more I looked at the illustrations in the Sibley and the Peterson guides the more I became confused.
Thank you for the ID and the linky. |
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| Well, that's my thought, anyway. Coops are big, but Gos way bigger. The feet in your image are big, but not gos big. I would like to hear what Birdnut says. |
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| I am also thinking this is a Cooper's Hawk. However, the clincher between immature Cooper's and Northern Goshawk is that the goshawk has brown streaked undertail covers and on a Cooper's the undertail coverts are pure snow white. Although the undertail coverts are not visible, the righthand picture shows the streaking on the breast/belly fading out as it gets closer to the tail, indicating the coverts are probably unstreaked and this is a Cooper's. Also, an immature (1st year) goshawk would appear darker and the streaks on the breast darker and more numerous. Based on all that gibber gabber, I am going with first-year Cooper's Hawk. 1st year NOGO showing undertail coverts. 
See another link below. Images are not mine but from pbase on the internet. BN |
Here is a link that might be useful: 1st year NOGO
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| BN, Can't access the image. |
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| Hmmm...they both worked yesterday. Not sure what is up. BN |
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| birding_nut thanks for your reply. That sure is a clear and crisp photo. elly_nj - If you copy and paste the "1st year NOGO" link it should work, at least it did for me. |
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| Sorry, a correction, should be right click on the photo link > copy shortcut > then paste in your address bar. |
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| WOW! That is an amazing bird. Love the spotting. I've never seen one in the feathers, so to speak. |
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