Whatever an animal eats, especially poison, travels up the food chain. One of the most dangerous threats these birds face is from rodenticide poisoning. Here are a few things we should all be doing to help save these beautiful birds of prey, or what we call Cooper’s Hawk Conservation.Īccording to the Audubon, Cooper’s Hawks are not considered threatened or endangered, but they are at risk from a variety of threats. We love our birds of prey and do everything we can to help protect them, even though that means having the occasional bird parts and blood strewn over our patio and back yards.īirds of prey, like the Cooper’s Hawk, play an important ecological role by controlling rodents and other small mammals.
Cooper’s Hawk giving us a quick look before it runs into the bush to attack the songbirds READ: SAVE OUR RAPTORS, DON’T USE RODENTICIDE! Cooper’s Hawk Conservation The Cooper’s Hawk doesn’t easily scare, but finally, it flies off, and the songbirds go on to live another day.Īs Dan is walking back into the office, he notices several songbirds and Mourning Doves sitting on the roof watching this scenario play out.
It’s never our intention to interfere with the circle of life, but we’re not serving up songbirds on a silver platter for this bird of prey either. Watching this play out, Dan runs outside making noise to drive the Cooper’s Hawk away. Cooper’s Hawk quietly approaches songbirds in the bush Just before the Cooper’s Hawk gets close to its target, the bird displays a sudden burst of speed and jumps into the bush. The hawk stands still observing the songbirds in the bush and then jumps to the ground, and slowly walks closer. Cooper’s Hawk using Pine Tree to conceal its approach Birds in the Bush The bird has red-orange eyes with a drip-like brown, vertical streaking on the breast indicating it’s a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk.Īdult Cooper’s Hawks have crimson red eyes and a barring pattern on their chest. Covertly perching in the Pine Tree was a beautiful juvenile Cooper’s Hawk. Immediately all the songbirds scatter to the nearby bush for refuge from the predator. Cooper’s Hawk perched in Pine Tree checking out its dining optionĭan was suspicious and grabbed his camera to see what was happening.
Then early one morning, Dan was at his desk and saw a large object land in the Pine Tree overlooking the feeders.
#There will be blood windows
We didn’t see the birds flying through the yard, but we weren’t looking outside the office windows all day, either. For Backyard Birds, There Will be BloodĪfter finding clumps of feathers close to our bird feeders and blood on the patio behind our office, we knew Cooper’s Hawks or Sharp-shinned Hawks were dining on our songbirds. They approach their prey stealthily, using dense vegetation to conceal their approach and then attack their target with a sudden burst of speed. These beautiful accipiters are amazing hunters from both perches and on the wing. If you’re into birds and have bird feeders, you’ve encountered the backyard bird-eating terrors known as Cooper’s Hawks.
#There will be blood series
Traits that allow the Cooper’s Hawk to surprise its prey when hunting also make it difficult to observe by humans.īut we were lucky to witness a Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter Cooperii) hunting and capture our observations in a series of photographs.
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