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Identifier: birdsofwashingt00mayn (find matches)
Title: Birds of Washington and vicinity
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Maynard, Lucy (Warner), 1852-1936. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Woodward & Lothrop
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ot and a half and thelatter two feet long. Sharp-shinned Hawk: Accipitcr vclox. Length 1 ( inches. Upper parts slaty-gray, with a few white spots; tail lighter,with dark band and tipped with whitish. Under parts white, barred with light brown, the throatwith dark streaks. The young are dark brown and rustyabove, and streaked instead of barred beneath. Resident (common) all the year. The food of the Sharp-shinned consists almost en-tirely of young poultry and small birds, and Dr. A. K.Fisher of the Biological Survey, the authority onHawks and Owls, says there is little in its favor ex-cept its fondness for the English Sparrow, and thatit is gradually learning that there is a never-failingsupply of food for it in the larger towns and cities.He has seen it chasing Sparrows in the Washingtonparks. The Shaip-shinned nests later than other Haw7ksand usually builds in a thick evergreen tree abouttwrenty feet from the ground. The eggs, 4 to 5, areheavily spotted and blotched. COOPERS HAWK 139
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COOPERS HAWK (Accipiter cooperii). 140 CO OPER S HA WK Coopers Hawk: Accipiter cooperii. . * This little Hawk is like the Sharp-shinned, but larger,being 16 inches long. Resident (common) all the year. Chicken Hawk is a common and fitting namefor Coopers. He takes larger poultry than theSharp-shinned and is especially fond of tame pigeons,as well as all kinds of wild birds. Meadowlarks,Robins and Flickers are mentioned as frequentvictims. He also eats English Sparrows. The nest is usually in the top of a tree, either ever-green or deciduous, and looks like a Crows nest.The eggs, 4 to 5, are bluish-white, sometimes lightlyspotted with brown. RED- TAILED HA WK 141 *<*$fp\.

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