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The Cooper's hawk is a medium-sized, slender, fast ambush hunter of birds and small mammals. Adults (like these ) are slate-blue above with a dark cap, yellow-orange (females) or red (males) eyes, and rusty barring below, and often have fluffy white undertail coverts setting off the long banded tail. I know this pair quite well; they live in a small canyon with some old sycamores near Riverside, California; most of these photos were made near the birds' favorite morning perch: a small power pole at the mouth of the canyon; others were made at Big Morongo Reserve in the California desert. More pictures of these fast, stealthy, powerful hawks are here and here.
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