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Cooper's Hawk

Accipiter cooperii
COHA · Accipitridae · Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
Forest provisional · from avonet
30heard

Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) is a medium-sized hawk native to the North American continent and found from southern Canada to Mexico. This species is a member of the genus Accipiter, sometimes referred to as true hawks, which are famously agile, relatively small hawks common to wooded habitats around the world and also the most diverse of all diurnal raptor genera. As in many birds of prey, the male is smaller than the female. The birds found east of the Mississippi River tend to be larger on average than the…

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mean confidence
28–33 in wingspan

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Cooper's Hawk
Mykola SwarnykCC BY-SA 3.0
30Detections
19Days heard
0.61Mean confidence
9 AugFirst heard
26 SepLast heard
9,125Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

9 Aug 26 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home29 detections
On outings1 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-09-02 07:06
9 s
0.84
2026-09-05 06:50
9 s
0.78
2026-09-02 07:05
9 s
0.72
2026-09-02 07:06
9 s
0.72
2026-08-25 08:04
9 s
0.69
2026-08-10 17:49
9 s
0.68
2026-08-09 10:53
9 s
0.67
2026-09-21 18:07
9 s
0.66
2026-08-09 11:34
9 s
0.66
2026-09-07 09:20
9 s
0.65
2026-09-23 19:01
9 s
0.64
2026-09-24 06:53
9 s
0.62
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 28 Sep, 1:45pm Archive