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This is a picture of a Cooper's Hawk. It is a wild bird. Read on please.
The fourth grade students at my school noticed it in one of our courtyards at school. Their teacher came and got me and within minutes, the building engineer and I were outside catching it. It was obviously injured...broken wing and it was missing an eye. However, it looked quite healthy despite its injuries. The eye may have been a birth defect. I noticed no wound in the socket, just a missing eye. A video of that capture may appear on the Internets some day. :-) Anyhow, another teacher put me in contact with a wildlife rehab center and that is where this one will go to live its life.
Ésta es una foto de un gavilán de Cooper. Es salvaje pero continua leyendo por favor.
Los estudiantes de cuarto grado en mi escuela se fijaron en él en uno de nuestros patios en la escuela. Su maestra se fue por mí y dentro de unos minutos el conserje y yo estaban afuera capturándolo. Obviamente, estaba lesionado...ala quebrada y le hacía falta un ojo. Sin embargo, parecía bastante sano a pesar de sus heridas. Puede ser que el ojo fuera un defecto de nacimiento. Sólo vi la cuenca del ojo sin el ojo, pero no parecía lesionada. Otra maestra me puso en contacto con un centro de rehabilitación de aves y allí, se econtrará muy pronto para vivir el resto de su vida.
© Brian E. Kushner
I first had this labeled as a Northern Goshawk. There was a long debate in another forum and conlusion was NGH. However it has been brought to my attention that this is in fact a Cooper's Hawk as evidenced by the comments below. After careful review on many sites of many images I too agree.
Cooper's? Goshawk? Sharp Shinned? Makes you dizzy, one things for sure, they're all beautiful birds.
Shot in my yard December 2008.
Hit "L" to make it big
This weekend was so nice out so I didn't get much of a chance to setup anything good for this week. So, Coop eating dinner will have to do!
Camera:
Canon 5d3
Canon 50mm (1.4)
1/50 @ f/2.0
ISO 400
Strobist:
1 - Canon 530EXii, on camera, ETTL, bounced off camera left
Objective (Jeremy speak):
Sorry but nothing out of this world today. After last week's shot, it was going to be hard to top!
Simple bounce flash - I hardly ever shoot on camera flash anymore so this was good to mix it up a bit
Bs.As. Octubre 2004. Interior de imprenta cooperativa chilavert rtes graficas. Traslado de materiales para impresion offset/AA
The Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) is a medium-sized hawk.
Their breeding range extends from southern Canada to northern Mexico. They are generally distributed more to the South than the other North American Accipiters, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and the Northern Goshawk. Birds from most of the Canadian and northern-U.S.-range migrate in winter, and some Cooper's Hawks winter as far south as Panama).
The average adult male, at 312 g (11 oz), 39 cm (15 in) long and a wingspan of 73 cm (29 in), is considerably smaller than the average female, at 500 g (1.1 lb), 45 cm (18 in) long and a wingspan of 83 cm (33 in). All have short broad wings and a long, round-ended tail with dark bands. Adults have a dark cap, blue-gray upperparts and white underparts with reddish bars. They have red eyes and yellow legs. Immatures have brown upperparts and pale underparts with thin streaks mostly ending at the belly. This bird is somewhat larger than a Sharp-shinned Hawk and smaller than a Northern Goshawk, though small males nearly overlap with big female Sharp-shins, and big female Cooper's Hawks nearly overlap with small male Goshawks. The Cooper's Hawk appears long-necked in flight and has been described by birdwatchers as looking like a "flying cross".