It said, “Struggling to separate a sharp-shinned hawk from a Cooper’s? Amazed when a bald eagle is spotted high in the sky where you see nothing?” YES and YES, I thought! Unfortunately for ...

The smallest of our bird-hunting Accipiter hawks, this one is also the most migratory, breeding north to treeline in Alaska and Canada and wintering south to Panama. It is during migration that the ...

Driving on Vermont’s interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular ...

Remember how the broad-winged hawk is the smallest Buteo hawk? Well, the sharp-shinned hawk is the smallest hawk overall! At their largest, they weigh less than 8 ounces. That’s around the same ...

The bunting is still present as of this writing (Jan. 13) and will likely overwinter if the Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks keep their talons off it. Jim McCormac is a natural historian and columnist ...

Symbolically, hawks represent aggression while doves represent peace. I saw why recently, when a Cooper’s hawk flew in and ...

Sharp-shinned hawk is smaller and has a square tail. Widespread through United States and southern Canada, more commonly seen in suburbs, probably due to reforestation in the East. Breeding ...

I also noticed a sharp-shinned hawk perched on a sunflower plant and as a goldfinch flew by, the hawk quickly captured the luckless bird. It was not long before a northern shrike captured a siskin ...

cooper’s hawk and sharp-shinned hawk. The most common hawk in BC is the red-tailed hawk that migrates from most of the province in the winter but stays in the south of the province near ...

The Sharp-shinned Hawk is a small, agile raptor with short, rounded wings and a long, square-tipped tail. Adults display blue-gray upperparts, with rufous-barred white underparts. The head is dark, ...