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Excellent series of pictures. I usually don't participate in the discussions between Coopers and Sharp-shinned.  But in this case due to your great pictures, I'd say that is a Juvenile Cooper's Hawk.

Unknown accipiter --can anyone give clues without a photo?  Its solid medium gray underside and lack of underside barring or streaking has us puzzled. SEEN:  06-12-08  7 p.m. Suburb of North Indianapolis Indiana backyard --standing on the ground with grackles and robins diving and screaming at it.  This area has some ...

Hi this is my first post here. I have recently started taking pictures of birds and need a little help to build my assurance that my guesses are close to what they are. At first I thought this was a Praire Falcon but then I saw one and it doesn't have the black mustache on it's face. Now I'm not sure what this is. This was taken in PA. ...

I hope you can help me identify this raptor.  It was taken in August, 2006 in a park in a suburb of Minneapolis.  It was in a very woody area, but the bird was flying over a wide open area over a pond around 4 pm.  It was flying rather low so I was able to get alot of good photos with my 300mm lens.  I emailed ...

I saw what I thought was a Cooper's Hawk in my backyard (which abuts the Santa Teresa foothills in San Jose, CA). However, the bird had a row of yellow feathers at the tip of its tail. I could not find any description of a Cooper's Hawk that included that detail. I checked other hawks, and couldn't find another hawk with those feathers. Any help ...