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Cooper's hawk at NCSU dairy farm
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
 
- Subject: Cooper's hawk at NCSU dairy farm
 
- From: rperkins@fayettevillenc.com (Robert C. Perkins)
 
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:50:26 -0500 (EST)
 
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
 
Thanks to everyone who posted or emailed me encouraging news.  I'm really
happy to be able to get confirmation of a tough (for me) id.  Prior to
seeing the bird in question, the only positive id I had of a Cooper's hawk
was in New Hampshire during March.  That was a beautiful adult bird, not an
immature one.  Getting the id on the youngster was like starting from
scratch on a new species.
For those who are wondering how I could confuse a Cooper's and a harrier, I
would plead that while I have a recorded in my log a number of sightings of
harriers, only one of those was an adult male and all were birds in flight.
I've never examined a harrier sitting on a perch.  One of these days!
Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu