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What Kind of Bird is this?
wonder:
Had a bird feasting on our young chicks last week. Killed 3 of them in one afternoon and carried none out of the coup? Main chicken coup is completely covered next door to this enclosure as this is a makeshift rearing area that we did not intend to house a new batch of chicks but were forced to due to a rebel hen that got out and hatched 16 babies.
One bird was killed and left intact, one bird was partially devoured, and one bird was devoured and it looks like some predator attempted to drag it thru our horse fence but it got stuck.
That last bird was picked clean? I am thinking it's a Goshawk based on it's size and plumage. It looks too big for a Sharp Shinned or Coopers but was hoping we have a resident expert out there with Raptors?
bowhunterforever:
Looks like a falcon to me
buckcanyonlodge:
Sharp shinned hawk..They loved my chickens until they learned not to dine on Col. Wakefields chicken.
Old Dog:
...or possibly a Cooper's hawk. They are marked a lot like the sharp shinned, but are a little bigger. :dunno:
wonder:
After looking thru my Sibley's guide I am leaning on that too. Sharp Shinned is kind of small and it says they are only 11 inches tall where as Cooper's Hawk is about 16.5 inches. Goshawk jumps all the way up to 21 inches and the coloring doesn't match unless this one was juvenile? Hopefully I can get a color picture next time. Light was too low so my camera just took a black and white.
Thanks for the feedback. Let all the chickens run around this morning until an hour a go and no losses. Never ending battle when you are in their territory.
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