wildcritters Nature Photography

LOCATION PHOTO #3473 

Westchester County

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Coopers Hawk (a)

[Accipiter cooperii]

3/13/2000

Westchester County NY

Unlike falcons who kill prey by biting, the cooper's hawk will capture a smaller bird with its talons and hold the prey away from its body to make the kill with repeated squeezing.

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