Cooper's hawk with prey

Cooper's hawk juvenile with dove he/she has just taken but can't figure out how to deliver the coup de grace.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Cooper's
• hawk
• prey
• bird

[birdingdude]

not a goshawk because they never come to the central Florida area where the video was taken.

[sohighlyunlikely]

Are you sure it's not a young male Goshawk?

[birdingdude]

I didn't identify the location, sorry about that. This vid was taken 15 miles south of Tampa FL, goshawks NEVER come here :(, I would love to get one on my lifelist.

[gunner1947]

its  definetly not a coopers hawk

[birdingdude]

it's a juvenile bird as noted in the description of the video, the heavy breast streaking of the juvenile shows up nicely, the large head and overall size limit the choices of id to the Cooper's

[jacksettle]

That looks like a juvenile goshawk to me. I'm no expert, but the streaking looks heavier than that of a cooper's, and the juveniles of goshawks do move south during the winter.

But I like the vids!

[Kjredtail]

R u sure that is not a juvenile goshawk. looks Very similar

[caneywaney]

there's a good number of them here and they are increasing in numbers in S.E. Pa. i keep finch feeders here to keep the hawks. After all, there are plenty of finches and it's just natures way. Hawks also keep the squirrls at bay and the mice too

[sherrilynn115]

Very cool!!!!

[gatito0319]

this video is very good, muy bonito video.