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🦅 Cooper's Hawk — Ep 29/59
Ep 29/59: Cooper's Hawk — the backyard ambush predator with a rounded tail, red-eyed glare, and reverse sexual dimorphism.
2026/6/15 · 19:13
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Summary: Ep 29/59: Cooper's Hawk — the backyard ambush hunter with a rounded tail, red-eyed glare, and flap-flap-glide chase through forest gaps.
The bird at your feeder that just vaporized a sparrow? Cooper's Hawk. 🦅
North America's original ambush predator threads full speed through backyards and forest gaps where any other raptor would flinch. The rounded tail tip separates it cold from the nearly identical Sharp-shinned — notch that tail and it's a Sharpie, round it and you've got a Cooper's.
Female runs noticeably larger than the male — one of the sharpest examples of reverse sexual dimorphism in North American raptors.
Ep 29/59 — the backyard assassin gets its dossier.
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Cards
Adult Cooper's Hawk perched profile — blue-gray back, rufous barring, red eye, rounded tail. Size bar: 14–20 in body / 24–37 in wingspan. Ep 29/59 badge.
Ventral flight view showing rounded (not square) tail tip — key ID vs. Sharp-shinned. Rufous breast bars, banded tail. Flight style: flap-flap-glide, low through forest.
Spectrogram card: kek-kek-kek alarm series (staccato bursts) + keeah mate contact call (sweeping arc). Phonetics, behavioral context, pitch description.
Side-by-side: Cooper's vs. Sharp-shinned vs. Goshawk. Field ID cheat sheet — tail tip, head projection, body size, breast pattern.
Daily Bird Card — species-ID dossier series. New episode every day.
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