# Cooper's Hawk

[![cooper's hawk on fence.jpg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/scaled-1680-/coopers-hawk-on-fence.jpg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/coopers-hawk-on-fence.jpg)

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-an-american-kestrel-" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; border-width: 1px; background-color: #ecf0f1;"><colgroup><col style="width: 99.876543%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td class="align-center" style="border-width: 1px;">*A Cooper's Hawk perched on my backyard fence looking for a songbird snack* | 02/02/2023</td></tr></tbody></table>

### **Description**

The adult Cooper's Hawk has striking red eyes. Look for its striped tail and wings. It has mottled red and tan color on its chest, similar to a Red-shouldered Hawk but not clear striping.

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### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Personal stats**</span>  


#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**First observation**</span>

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#### **Captured media details**

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### **Experiences &amp; anecdotes**

**12/16/2022** - When I lived in California, I only saw this bird occasionally. While I was in Huntington Beach, I remember a Kestrel fluttering around a park field. It was perching on various power poles and would flutter in the air and zip around. I stalked it around the field watching it with my binoculars.

Nowadays, here in Texas, we see them all the time. I almost always spot them on power lines at [Pearsall Park](http://147.182.199.170/Locations/Pearsall-Park). Most aren’t skittish and will let me walk underneath them while they stay perched on the lines.

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### **Captured media**

#### **Photographs**

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">**[![cooper's hawk on branch.jpg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/scaled-1680-/coopers-hawk-on-branch.jpg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/coopers-hawk-on-branch.jpg)**</span>

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-an-american-kestrel--1" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 99.876543%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td class="align-center" style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">*<span style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">A juvenile Cooper's Hawk resting on a branch</span>*<span style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);"> | 10/13/2013</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<span style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">[![cooper's hawk in flight .jpg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/scaled-1680-/coopers-hawk-in-flight.jpg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/coopers-hawk-in-flight.jpg)</span>

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-a-poofed-up-kestrel-" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 29px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 99.876543%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 29px;"><td class="align-center" style="height: 29px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">*Cooper's Hawk in flight. I usually look for a striped tail.* | 05/18/2014</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<span style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">*[![cooper's hawk in fall tree.jpg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/scaled-1680-/coopers-hawk-in-fall-tree.jpg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-05/coopers-hawk-in-fall-tree.jpg)*</span>

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-the-american-kestrel-1" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 99.876543%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td class="align-center" style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">*Cooper's Hawk in a tree during Autumn* | 12/21/2013</td></tr></tbody></table>

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#### **Audio recordings**

- [**ML371206891**](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/371206891) - 0:05 
    - Listen to the calls of the Cooper's Hawk

<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="378" src="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/371206891/embed" width="320"></iframe>

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### **From my blogs**

- [Big Move to the Lone Star State and Meeting the Neighborhood Birds](https://becausebirds.com/big-move-lone-star-state-meeting-neighborhood-birds/)
- [Birding in Boerne](https://becausebirds.com/birding-in-boerne/)