Help me identify this hawk

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Photographed in SWMO.

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1. There are tons of red tails around here

[Skittles]

2. Cooper?

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5. looks close

[Skittles]

7. .

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8. Looks even closer, is that still a Cooper?

[Skittles]

11. yes

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.birddigiscoper.com/2006/12/cooper-portraits.html&usg=__MY_Y2uxajjxjWWbW0r2ENEjg5sQ=&h=886&w=692&sz=217&hl=en&start=16&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=rwFHMHygQwTWlM:&tbnh=146&tbnw=114&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcooper%2Bhawk%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1

[notadmblnd]

6. peregrine falcon?

[havocmom]

12. OP's pic is a Coopers hawk. Skittles pic looks like Merlin hawk

or ferruginous hawk, Size would be the big difference and no frame of reference. Ferruginous is larger than the Merlin with a wingspan of about 56" and about 2 feet tall. Merlin has a 24 inch wing span, bird is about a foot tall

Cooper has horizontal-ish stripes on chest, like a tweed vest.Pic in OP is Coopers hawk Merlin or ferruginous has more vertical markings on chest.

So says the wildlife manager at the next desk with his bird book open.

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17. I don't know, looks just like the red tail in the pic below

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Looks like a red-shouldered hawk.

It could also be a broad-winged hawk, but it looks from your photo that it has the rust-brown shoulders and speckled back of a red-shouldered hawk. They are also larger than the broad-winged hawk.

[onestepforward]

16. I think so too after looking at my field guide.

The Cooper's hawk (#2) looks like a juvenile. Beautiful birds!

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4. Broad winged or broad shouldered hawk.

[Botany]

9. Red Tailed Hawk or red shouldered hawk

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10. Are you 100% sure?

[Botany]

13. 1 of the two ...... I am leaning red shouldered

Red shouldered hawk



Red Tailed

problem is that males and females have different colors and age of the bird changes the look too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Red-shouldered:

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15. That looks just like him!

[tabatha]

18. Red-shouldered Hawk.

[StClone]

19. 100% R-shouldered

[laconicsax]

20. I think it's name is Pebbles.

I could be wrong though--I'm pretty bad with faces.

[Maestro]

21. Red shouldered hawk -nt

[Lorien]

22. +1. They're everywhere here in Florida. nt