Cooper’s Hawk (accipiter cooperii) is a mid-sized, woodland hawk, which nests in either deciduous or coniferous trees, between 25 to 50 feet high. It usually builds its nest on another animal’s or bird’s nest, adding large sticks. It feeds on smaller birds, the size of Robins, and sometimes reptiles and insects. Charles Lucien Bonaparte named it for naturalist William Cooper, one of the founders of what was to become the New York Academy of Sciences, when he first described the hawk in 1828. It is another of the birds that is commonly called a chicken hawk, also striker, Mexican hawk, hen hawk and quail hawk. It has adapted to urban and suburban life and feeds on Mourning Doves and Rock Pigeons.
Family: Hawks and Eagles
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