Species: Cooper’s Hawk
Most recent capture date: 8/11/2021
Sex: Female
Age: less than six months old
Notes: Did I say that we rarely catch raptors? We were astonished to catch the Red-shouldered Hawk and this Cooper’s Hawk in the same week! We have Cooper’s Hawks breeding at CCFS, so this young bird may well have hatched at CCFS. We could tell that she was female based on her size: female raptors are larger than males.