A female sharp-shinned captured during spring migration at Whitefish Pond, Michigan, had three porcupine quills through her foot [as the result of what appeared to been an overly ambitious foray].' ...

A sharp-shinned hawk is about the size of a blue jay, compared to the crow-sized Cooper's hawk. But be careful in judging size because a female sharp-shinned may appear the same size as a male ...

Both the sharp-shinned and the Cooper’s hawk are common in and around Santa Fe, but it can be difficult to tell them apart. The biggest difference between them is size. Cooper’s hawks are ...

A red-tailed hawk, which outweighs a sharp-shinned by a factor of six or seven, had been tracing lazy circles overhead. Suddenly, a female sharp-shinned hawk materialized and began strafing the ...

Because female sharp-shinned hawks could be nearly the same size as male Cooper’s hawks and vice versa, be careful in judging size. In flight, a Cooper’s hawk looks like a flying cross, ...

A male Cooper's hawk and female sharp-shinned hawk may approach similar sizes. Therefore, many birders will often leave accipiters unidentified in the field, noting them as Accipiter sp.

Sharp-shinned hawks range from 10 to 14 inches, again with females larger than males. A small male Cooper’s can be the size of a large female sharp-shin. If in doubt, try to get a look at the tail.

Then one morning brought a steady succession of them to our birdbath – beginning with a streaky, first-year sharp-shinned hawk, shortly followed by another immature, but slightly larger ...

In general, Sharp-shinned Hawks are smaller than Cooper's Hawks. Like most birds of prey, the females of those species are larger than the males. The size of a female Sharp-shinned Hawk is about ...

We have two species of forest hawks: the American goshawk and the much smaller sharp-shinned hawk. Both have short, broad, powerful wings and long tails, which let them dash through thick ...

Bird feeders are great. They attract interesting birds and provide hours of enjoyment and sometimes, if you're lucky, a glimpse into the raw majesty of nature itself. The other day, ...