Accipiters

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 * Migration: The Northern Goshawk is a late October and November migrant. [[image:http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/ISJ_020404_00108D_S.jpg caption="Northern Goshawk Photo"]]
 * Bird type: The Northern Goshawk is a type of Accpiter.
 * Protection of its young: It is very aggressive when it comes to protecting its nest.
 * Fact: the Northern Goshawk is the biggest Hawk in the Accipiter family.
 * Food: Northern Goshawk eat cows, grouse, and snowshoe rabbits, and sometime squirrels.
 * Descriptions: large, they have a long tail, round broad wings, on them is a dark cap and a stripe through their eye, they also have white eyebrows with a stripe, a grey belly, and a blueish gray back.
 * an adult northern goshawk has red eyes.
 * females are 1/3 larger than males

=SHARP-SHINNED HAWK = MIGRATION
 * Same plumage as the Coopers Hawk
 * Smallest of the north american accipiters
 * Unusual square tipped tail
 * Head does not stick due to the forward wings.
 * Mostly migrates alone sometimes found in small groups of Red-tailed hawks, Broad-Winged hawks, American Kestrels and/or other Sharp-shinned hawks.
 * Around 5000 migrate between September and November.

FOOD HABITAT FIELD MARKS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
 * Diet consists of small birds, insects, frogs, lizards, and small mammals.
 * lives in forests all over the America,s
 * rarely soars or perches above or away from the forest.
 * Mixes flying with gliding
 * Round tail
 * Round wings
 * I saw 1 Sharp-Shinned Hawk over the north lokkout the day we went
 * Total there were112 the day we went

=**COOPER'S HAWK**=

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Rounded tail, looks like the Sharp - Shinned hawk
 * Large head sticks out in front of wings.
 * Same Plumage as the Sharp-shinned hawk.

HABITAT It lives in the forests of southern Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.

FOOD It uses stealth tactics to catch its prey. It eats small mammals, other birds, as well as lizards and other amphibians.

MIGRATION It usually migrates alone. It passes Hawk Mountain during its migration path, it mostly migrates in autumn. It is a Partial migrant.

The Cooper's Hawk has a flap-flap glide kind of flying. It is very fast, and its very skilled at flying through trees.