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217   COOPER'S HAWK (7 6 2015) pena blanca lake, santa cruz co, az  03 (19289381900)🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Cooper's Hawk

Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)

El gavilán de Cooper o azor de Cooper (Astur cooperii )​ es una especie de ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae propia de América del Norte y regiones del desierto de Sonora, México, si bien algunos ejemplares emigran hacia el sur, llegando a avistarse ejemplares incluso en Panamá. Si se conocen subespecies.​ En el pasado, estuvo incluido en el género Accipiter, pero los estudios de filogenética molecular revelaron que éste era polifilético y, en la posterior reorganización para crear géneros monofiléticos, el género Astur fue restablecido en 2024 para contener nueve especies que anteriormente se ubicaban en Accipiter.​​​

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/140th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.43 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Cooper's Hawk

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.43 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.53 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.19 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.24 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
24 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 4
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.4 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Cooper's Hawk yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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astor de Cooper (ca), jestřáb Cooperův (cs), Gråkronet Duehøg (da), Rundschwanzhanicht (de), gavilán de Cooper (es), kyyhkyhaukka (fi) … and 22 more languages

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