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02/27/2005 10:15:00 AM · #1 |
I just grabbed this shot a few minutes ago, in my garden. I'm not sure what it is can you identify it?
I've not seen the like in my garden before.
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02/27/2005 10:16:52 AM · #2 |
| I beleive that is a Coopers Hawk. |
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02/27/2005 10:18:49 AM · #3 |
British birds tend to look a little different than the US ones, but it looks like a Goshawk to me.
Message edited by author 2005-02-27 10:21:39. |
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02/27/2005 10:18:57 AM · #4 |
| Looks like a Northern Goshawk. |
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02/27/2005 10:23:02 AM · #5 |
| Looks like a Sparrowhawk to me. |
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02/27/2005 10:24:41 AM · #6 |
I know! It's a photograph!
-Terry
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02/27/2005 10:34:06 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Formerlee:
Looks like a Sparrowhawk to me. |
Yep, that's what I thought, but I'm no expert?
Any ornithologists out there?
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02/27/2005 10:37:59 AM · #8 |
Looks very much like a Cooper's Hawk to me. cf //www.fnal.gov/ecology/wildlife/pics/Coopers_Hawk.jpg
Robt.
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02/27/2005 10:47:21 AM · #9 |
We don't have Cooper's Hawk in UK.
Just checked in Birds of Britain, it is a female Sparrowhawk, Blackdog.
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02/27/2005 10:51:40 AM · #10 |
Thanks Steve, just been checking the web and I agree, the other nearest is a Goshawk.
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02/27/2005 10:56:56 AM · #11 |
There ya go then:
edited out ridiculous url
Robt.
Message edited by author 2005-02-27 12:15:34.
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02/27/2005 11:02:04 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by Blackdog:
I just grabbed this shot a few minutes ago, in my garden. I'm not sure what it is can you identify it?
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I'm pretty sure that's what they call a bird.
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02/27/2005 11:35:24 AM · #13 |
I just took a shot of a hawk just like the one posted here, in Vancouver, BC, about a block from the shore. I imagine it was a Cooper's?
Message edited by author 2005-02-27 11:44:55.
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02/27/2005 11:35:50 AM · #14 |
Just to confirm
Sparrowhawk
Sparrowhawk2
Sparrowhawk3
We used to get these in our garden on the East Coast of Scotland.
Steve
Message edited by author 2005-02-27 11:40:15. |
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02/27/2005 12:16:28 PM · #15 |
I've edited out that ridiculous url, Anyone wants to see a female sparrowhawk, google same on google images.
Zeus, yes I believe in your area it would be a Cooper's.
Robt.
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02/27/2005 01:04:04 PM · #16 |
Anyone have a go at this one? On San Francisco Bay in mid-February. I thought it was an egret, but with its head tucked in like that it looks rather heron-like ...
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02/27/2005 01:06:32 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Anyone have a go at this one? On San Francisco Bay in mid-February. I thought it was an egret, but with its head tucked in like that it looks rather heron-like ...
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It's an egret. |
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02/27/2005 01:41:43 PM · #18 |
In Britain, it is called a sparrowhawk. It gets confusing, because sparrowhawk in the US is the common name for a Kestrel, which is a small falcon.
It's either a Cooper's or Sharp-shinned hawk (US terms). Those two as well as Goshawks are all three almost identical in appearance, but of different sizes and ranges. Usually very secretive, they largely hunt birds, with the occasional small mammal thrown in.
//www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/sparrowhawk.htm |
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02/27/2005 02:02:03 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by moodville:
It's an egret. |
Thanks! I guess I've never seen one up close like that. I got a few shots (some with a coot also) before he flew off -- unfortunately I only caught his back half in flight, 'cause I had a good exposure on the wings : ( |
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02/27/2005 02:06:09 PM · #20 |
The hawk is a female European Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) Cooper's are only North American, and very rare in Europe. No. Goshawk is very large and not a thin.
The Egret is a Snowy.
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02/27/2005 02:40:19 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Anyone have a go at this one? On San Francisco Bay in mid-February. I thought it was an egret, but with its head tucked in like that it looks rather heron-like ...
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yep, pretty sure that one is a bird too.
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02/27/2005 03:02:05 PM · #22 |
Hey deapee! You really know your stuff!!
Steve |
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02/27/2005 03:10:18 PM · #23 |
| Well, according to some scientists it's a dinosaur with feathers ... |
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