Cooper’s Hawk Images, Facts and Information:
Accipiter cooperii
- Cooper’s Hawks are medium sized raptors with dark blue-gray backs, white underparts with many fine rufous bars, dark caps, red eyes, long tails with black and white banding. Juvenile and immature Cooper’s Hawks have brown backs, white underparts with fine brown streaks and yellowish eyes.
- Some Cooper’s Hawks migrate while others are year round residents in their range. Cooper’s Hawks can be found from southern Canada, throughout the U.S. and in Mexico.
- Cooper’s Hawks can be seen in pinyon woodlands, forested mountainous area, riparian woodlands, mixed deciduous forests, and yards in urban areas.
- Cooper’s Hawks feed primarily on birds but will also take small mammals.
- Cooper’s Hawks lay 4 to 5 eggs which hatch in 28 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of hawks can be called a “tower”, “knot”, “spiraling”, “stream” or “kettle” of hawks.
- Cooper’s Hawks can live to be more than 20 years old.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Cooper’s Hawk photos.
Immature Cooper’s Hawk walking on a wooden fence rail
Title: Immature Cooper’s Hawk walking on a wooden fence rail
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Young Cooper’s Hawk perched on an old wooden fence
Title: Young Cooper’s Hawk perched on an old wooden fence
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Immature Cooper’s Hawk stretching its wings
Title: Immature Cooper’s Hawk stretching its wings
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Stretching immature Cooper’s Hawk
Title: Stretching immature Cooper’s Hawk
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Young Cooper’s Hawk surveying its territory
Title: Young Cooper’s Hawk surveying its territory
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Immature Cooper’s Hawk spreading its tail
Title: Immature Cooper’s Hawk spreading its tail
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Immature Cooper’s Hawk resting on one leg
Title: Immature Cooper’s Hawk resting on one leg
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Grouchy looking immature Cooper’s Hawk
Title: Grouchy looking immature Cooper’s Hawk
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Immature Cooper’s Hawk looking at the ground
Title: Immature Cooper’s Hawk looking at the ground
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2019
Immature Cooper’s Hawk perched in sagebrush
Title: Immature Cooper’s Hawk perched in sagebrush
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/22/2019
Immature Cooper’s Hawk resting in sage
Title: Immature Cooper’s Hawk resting in sage
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/22/2019
Cooper’s Hawk juvenile portrait
Title: Cooper’s Hawk juvenile portrait
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/5/2018
Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/5/2018
Staring juvenile Cooper’s Hawk
Title: Staring juvenile Cooper’s Hawk
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/5/2018
Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk with fall colors
Title: Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk with fall colors
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/5/2018
Staring Cooper’s Hawk
Title: Staring Cooper’s Hawk
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 4/27/2018
Cooper’s Hawk perched on an old fence post
Title: Cooper’s Hawk perched on an old fence post
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 4/27/2018
Cooper’s Hawk fly by
Title: Cooper’s Hawk fly by
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/11/2017
Cooper’s Hawk in flight in northern Utah
Title: Cooper’s Hawk in flight in northern Utah
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/11/2017