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Cooper’s Hawk
Accipiter cooperii

Featured image credit: “Coopers Hawk – Reifel Sanctuary, Ladner, British Columbia” by Judy Gallagher is licensed under CC BY 2.0

To hear songs, learn identification information, migratory patterns, and some fun facts, check out the Cooper’s Hawk page offered by one of my favorite resources: the Cornell Lab of Ornithology »

This hawk is very similar to the Sharp-shinned Hawk, but I think because it was around crow size (rather than smaller) it was a Cooper’s Hawk I saw.

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