ML46956001

Observation details

It may be just, and most likely is a very large juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, but a few of its features fit in my opinion better for Northern Goshawk. Optically larger, bulkier and more robustly built cf. typical juvenile Cooper's Hawks with more Buteo like appearance; relatively long tapered wings with pointed wingtips. Tail is relatively short, broad and square-rounded; medium streaked on under-parts, with some broad tear-like marks on its chest and fine streaks markings on the lower belly and under-tail coverts. The head seems large as for Accipiter, (but this is likely just an illusion caused by its position in relation to me), and is uniformly brownish, with diffused almost not existent supercilium (good for tipical juvenile Goshawk, as oppose to juvenile Cooper's Hawks which much more often show a prominent white eye-stripe at this stage of development). I was not able to see him from the dorsal side