Can you spot three Cooper Hawk juveniles in this photograph? The Cooper Hawk is an excellent flyer. That excellence provides its meals:
Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper's Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, or wishbone. A Cooper's Hawk captures a bird with its feet and kills it by repeated squeezing.From All About Birds.
This photograph was taken by Beth Price, Wildewood Springs bird photographer and friend.
