Adult Cooper’s Hawk

Admission Date: 23 April 2017
Outcome: Died 26 April 2017
Location of Rescue: Polk Co
Cause of Admission / Condition: Grounded, collision with something
Patient Status: Patient Archive

This adult Cooper’s hawk collided with something (no one witnessed this collision so it is purely a guess) and has some head trauma with a swollen eye. This hawk had been down without food long enough that it is quite thin.

Updates:

26 April 2017
Accipiters and window-strikes... read this and see if you can help your part of the world be more bird safe!
https://soarraptors.org/2017/04/human-made-hazards-abound/

25 April 2017
This hawk is perching and eating.