I agree! Have you noticed the very annoying and over-bearing music on TV nature shows on the Discovery, History, Animal Planet channels? I've had to stop watching their shows because it became such a task, straining to hear what the narrator was telling me, and made it impossible to enjoy episodes. In those cases, I think it's how they flatten the video, combining the audio/video tracks, and ultimately unable to tweak to any sort of audio standard.
Get the app "Merlin Bird ID" on your phone, if you have one. Spectacular array of bird calls and identification ranging from songbirds to raptors. I highly recommend it.
the calls are individual to the bird it's not about the type of birds so fledgings sound squeakier than adults and so on. You probably have never seen adults train their babies then if you only noticed them when they call out going overhead. I have hawks that I can call and they call my dog out and myself. They know I record them, so if anything happens like they get hit by someone I have it. They have touched down on me without talons out. Meaning they just wanted to touch me, and imprint like the other birds that have imprinted and walk all over me and train with my dog. The hawk was actually watching us work together and was amazed at what we do. It poaches elsewhere now.
Me and my kids favorite road time killer is pointing out raptors and scavengers here in the hill country. We saw a beautiful caracara eating a dead raccoon on the road and the beak was so unique
To make things even more complicated when indentifying hawks, that Swainson's hawks, ferruginous hawks & rough legged hawks come in a variety of different colors as well.
another way to identfy hawks are if youre lucky enough to hear ones call they all sound pretty much unique, example, the coopers hawk sounds a bit more like a squirel chitering then an actuel squawk, you can look up the different hawk sounds on youtube pretty easily. thank you so much for this video it was amazing! hope to see more soon!
I have a raptor frequenting my backyard, because of a feeder. I have been trying to photograph hawks in my area, and thought I'd get lucky enough to get a shot of a red-tail. After watching this, I'm more confident my visitor is a cooper's hawk only because I know they are more popular in my area. Good video. You have a great presentation style.
Thank you so much. You solved a mystery of my childhood when it came to identifying Red-Tailed Hawks, that they didn't have to have red plumage to be a red-tail. They were my favorite to watch as a kid.
Well you came close to what I saw today but no cigar! Driving along a bumpy gravel country road a larger bird than a raven flew up out of a watery ditch as I approached. It looked almost solid black/brown with a shorter fanned tail more copper than reddish under the tail. It was massive. It turned its head ever so slightly to peer back at me. I’ve seen everything from smaller raptors (hawks) to Eagles. This bird entirely caught me off guard. I’m going to keep searching. I thought I saw them all!! Nope. I’ll never forget it.
It took me forever to find someone explain this as simple as you did...thank you...I live in southern California and now I know what I'm seeing flying over my house
Thank you- I thought I was seeing a peregrine falcon killing the pigeons at my feeder in south jersey (I love it!!!) after watching your video I'm 99.9% positive it is a Cooper's hawk!!! I have the pics and yeah...I was wrong!!! What a great new hobby- from gardening, to birding and hiking... it's amazing how much of a HIGH you can without drugs/alcohol!!!!-AMEN! Thanks again friend
Superb video! To share this with others, I've saved this to my large Arizona playlist, considering these raptors' presence in our skies. Thank you for sharing this!
I had a hawk soaring over my backyard with black and white banding on the tail and one of the bands was a orangish-yellow. And now it's driving me crazy trying to figure out what raptor I saw. It had multiple black/brown and white bands on the tail, but one band was colored yellow.
So Very Cool . Few times a yr. These Darling Lil falcons come dance for me, and Ohhh, it's like Magic. When we moved here, I learned how to draw the baby Hawks down to get water when learning to fly. ME! BUT, Life came.. We had Swollows, I loved Em, I didn't care about their nest, then Life came. The Hawks now Perch on Billboard's,, I haven't seen Swollows in 3yrs, Soon I won't see my Dancing Falcons. I'll do what I can though. " Thank You God for letting me experience your Love 💕
Thank you very much for this informative explanation of what I just looked at today, and I saw four soaring over a golf course. I imagine it to be parents with two chicks at their first day flying, because I heard their loud calling.
We have juvenile and adult Sharp-shinned Hawks that visit my wife's bird feeders, for the exact reason stated in the video .... Easy meal. When they do, they're not around long! The Grackles and Purple Martins pester them relentlessly until they move on. Back in the day, we used to see nothing but Red-tailed Hawks here in central Texas. However, we don't see them much any more, for some reason. As far as raptors go, we see alot of Sharps and Crested Caracaras these days.
My first time on here i love it I use to love walking for miles away from home in the wild looking at all of creation in nature i felt at home there away from everything in my small little town looking for hawks are falcons i would see sparrow hawks and red tailed and red shouldered hawks and osprey and a bald eagle once and other birds of prey i always looked for falcons and also owls in the evening time as well so many beautiful and fond memories when i was with mother nature alone by myself with her
we have a couple living in my field right next to the house. You never see this guy soaring. He's. Super lazy and just swings along the tree line . Never sits in a tree top either always sitting lower in the bushy part waiting for some mouse. It took a while for me to identify these guys as I kept seeing it swinging through trees ahead of me down some lane in the trees or fight through them. For a long time I thought it was an owl because of this behavior and it always being dusk along with the size of it. Now one is around much of the day off and on. I used to think it was a huge broad shouldered hawk by the behavior until I saw the fox red tail one day. I was mowing the field last week and it's like ringing the dinner bell. He kept landing 100 yards ahead in a tree then when I was under him he would fly ahead another 100 yards and wait. He kept this up until he found what he was after then left..... neat birds
I live in Milwaukee WI, about two months ago driving near Stevens point me and my partner from work saw a half bare tree with 15 or more Hawks in it. I thought it was strange , I've never heard of them in flocks?
Thanks for the clarification. I live out in the country, and I see red-tails and golden eagles all the time. But one day stopped the car in the driveway because one wouldn't get out of my way for some reason, got a good look at it and was confused because no red on the tail. Must have been a young one. After it was satisfied with looking at me it flew up into the fur tree above. Not sure why it was on the ground, or why it seemed unbothered about me driving up, rolling down my window and asking it to move. Maybe it was trying to get a snake or vole that eluded it. Nothing wrong with it that I could tell, other than it being seemingly more curious than other hawks. Thought it may have been a different species because of the tail and behavior, but nope.
I like the wing pattern tips. But I had always understood that the belted pattern of plumage on the Red-Tailed was a significant and easy identifier, am I mistaken in this?
You, sir, have an incredible voice for narration. You sound like the narrator from the movie, ‘Stand By Me’. You should release audiobooks or at the least, tell me where this accent is from :)
For today I am done! I think I saw a Cooper's Hawk for the first time this past spring. But - have watched so many red hawk comparison videos that I have questioned what I saw. I liked your video I think I was a Cooper's Hawk. But who knows when I might see one again!
not really, you usually only hear there calls if there perched and most people dont even notice them then, thats why i think it was a good idea showing them from beneith in the video becouse you mostly only see them when the're soaring anyway
I saw an all-white hawk sitting at the very top of a huge pine tree in Connecticut the other day. It was good sized, about the size of a red-tailed hawk. It was a cloudless, blue sky, sunny morning, so the sun was completely illuminating it, like an angel. I drove by, saw it, and had to turn around to go back to look at it, because I couldn't believe what I had seen. . It was very high up, so I couldn't get very detailed look at it ... . it looked like a Snowy Owl.; except that it wasn't. I could see enough of it, to see that it had a very small head, like a hawk. Not at all, an owl's head. It was definitely not a snowy owl. The body shape was all wrong. I took some photos, but they didn't come out well. So i'm just going to wonder now, what it was ,,, :D EDIT: I just found it! a Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk -- it was so cool looking!
im here in 2022..ohio. just saw an all black bird about the size of an adult crow, eating a dead rabbit my driveway. however when it took off the tail was quite big and just the bottom of the wing tipped with white. still not sure what it is
I jusr saw a bird fly over head of me in the back yard . It was at least almost the size of a petite house cat..it made a loud low craw sound but i couldnt make out if i thought i saw a bat or a bird because this is at night after midnight literally and its a very odd coincidence. I tried to bring a flashlight when i noticed it flying so it wasnt flying past too fast for me to notice some light feathers like white underneath the wings. it was obvious from the movement of the flight that it was a pretty sizey bird. Raptor possibly? In this climate? any one have any idea of a bird that would fly those hours and sound like this and such? It made that type of cry twice as it passed by st least
@@sirbader1 thanks for the response. I will pull up the pictures and compare. I've assume these birds hunt/live in my neighborhood as i see them frequently.
I'm trying to identify a hawk that's been trying very hard to get my chickens... so far, they've been able to outrun it to safety, thankfully. It's quite large with at least a 3-4ft wing span, mostly white underneath and on its back with a brownish speckled design. It may be a red shouldered or a broad winged hawk, not sure... may be a red tail, but its back isn't brown, and it's really a huge bird. We're out in the piney woods country northwest of Houston. Any guess on which variety of hawk it might be?
Without seeing a photo I can not be sure, perhaps one of the species of Buteo that could winter in the area? If you do, would you mind posting a photo of the bird here? Or keeping an eye out for it to snag a photo of it next time?
It was hunting about 100 yds away near the pasture, and I used the zoom on my camera, so the photo isn't very good... if I can just figure out how to post it here. The post it's sitting on is about 4ft high and maybe 4 inches across, if that helps on size. I wish I could catch it in flight, but there's never enough time. Apparently no photos, only videos can be posted ...
This video would be improved by covering the rest of the hawks. I've never seen any of the hawks in the video, and the red-shouldered hawk which is the most common hawk in my area, isn't even mentioned.
Oh, man. I wish all the informative or educational videos was like this: no freaking music. Just what matters: the information.
I agree! Have you noticed the very annoying and over-bearing music on TV nature shows on the Discovery, History, Animal Planet channels? I've had to stop watching their shows because it became such a task, straining to hear what the narrator was telling me, and made it impossible to enjoy episodes. In those cases, I think it's how they flatten the video, combining the audio/video tracks, and ultimately unable to tweak to any sort of audio standard.
Please buy a book.
So true!
Yeah, I used to love teachers with no charisma! They stuck to the info, no freaking seasoning. Just the meat and potatoes!
@@BestOfAnimalss has
I wish this video had the calls for the specific raptors, as I can usually hear them before I see them circle high overhead.
Get the app "Merlin Bird ID" on your phone, if you have one. Spectacular array of bird calls and identification ranging from songbirds to raptors. I highly recommend it.
the calls are individual to the bird it's not about the type of birds so fledgings sound squeakier than adults and so on. You probably have never seen adults train their babies then if you only noticed them when they call out going overhead. I have hawks that I can call and they call my dog out and myself. They know I record them, so if anything happens like they get hit by someone I have it. They have touched down on me without talons out. Meaning they just wanted to touch me, and imprint like the other birds that have imprinted and walk all over me and train with my dog. The hawk was actually watching us work together and was amazed at what we do. It poaches elsewhere now.
Me and my kids favorite road time killer is pointing out raptors and scavengers here in the hill country. We saw a beautiful caracara eating a dead raccoon on the road and the beak was so unique
Thank you for your wisdom... and for sharing. Also, you have a pleasant speaking voice, as well.
I second this! Similar to Mike Rowe.
I really dig how informational this video is. Thanks for uploading this, dude.
To make things even more complicated when indentifying hawks, that Swainson's hawks, ferruginous hawks & rough legged hawks come in a variety of different colors as well.
I'm a falconer this is my first year an this video helped me tons to identify hawks in my area of Ohio thank you!
What type of bird do you use for falconry? Just curious
Best of luck on the hunt!
another way to identfy hawks are if youre lucky enough to hear ones call they all sound pretty much unique, example, the coopers hawk sounds a bit more like a squirel chitering then an actuel squawk, you can look up the different hawk sounds on youtube pretty easily. thank you so much for this video it was amazing! hope to see more soon!
Beautiful species!! nice video!
Awesome video! Really helpful ... hawks are the best
Great help, but including their calls would have been even more helpful for me.
I have a raptor frequenting my backyard, because of a feeder. I have been trying to photograph hawks in my area, and thought I'd get lucky enough to get a shot of a red-tail. After watching this, I'm more confident my visitor is a cooper's hawk only because I know they are more popular in my area. Good video. You have a great presentation style.
Thank you so much. You solved a mystery of my childhood when it came to identifying Red-Tailed Hawks, that they didn't have to have red plumage to be a red-tail. They were my favorite to watch as a kid.
Thank you! I can finally say with some measure of certainty that I have a Cooper's Hawk hunting in my neighbourhood.
Thank you. This is just the info I needed to identify a pair nesting near by. I see them every day. It's a majestic moment
Well you came close to what I saw today but no cigar!
Driving along a bumpy gravel country road a larger bird than a raven flew up out of a watery ditch as I approached. It looked almost solid black/brown with a shorter fanned tail more copper than reddish under the tail. It was massive. It turned its head ever so slightly to peer back at me. I’ve seen everything from smaller raptors (hawks) to Eagles. This bird entirely caught me off guard. I’m going to keep searching. I thought I saw them all!! Nope. I’ll never forget it.
It took me forever to find someone explain this as simple as you did...thank you...I live in southern California and now I know what I'm seeing flying over my house
Thank you- I thought I was seeing a peregrine falcon killing the pigeons at my feeder in south jersey (I love it!!!) after watching your video I'm 99.9% positive it is a Cooper's hawk!!! I have the pics and yeah...I was wrong!!! What a great new hobby- from gardening, to birding and hiking... it's amazing how much of a HIGH you can without drugs/alcohol!!!!-AMEN! Thanks again friend
Superb video! To share this with others, I've saved this to my large Arizona playlist, considering these raptors' presence in our skies. Thank you for sharing this!
I had a hawk soaring over my backyard with black and white banding on the tail and one of the bands was a orangish-yellow. And now it's driving me crazy trying to figure out what raptor I saw. It had multiple black/brown and white bands on the tail, but one band was colored yellow.
So Very Cool . Few times a yr. These Darling Lil falcons come dance for me, and Ohhh, it's like Magic. When we moved here, I learned how to draw the baby Hawks down to get water when learning to fly. ME! BUT, Life came.. We had Swollows, I loved Em, I didn't care about their nest, then Life came. The Hawks now Perch on Billboard's,, I haven't seen Swollows in 3yrs, Soon I won't see my Dancing Falcons. I'll do what I can though. " Thank You God for letting me experience your Love 💕
Cool 😎 thanks for the viewing time today
This was GREAT‼️ Thank you for your explanations!
Thank you very much for this informative explanation of what I just looked at today, and I saw four soaring over a golf course. I imagine it to be parents with two chicks at their first day flying, because I heard their loud calling.
Very nice video!
Great as usual
Thank You!!!This is Great!!!Just Subscribed Too!!!I'm trying to identify this hawk or falcon or osprey
Excellent info.
We have juvenile and adult Sharp-shinned Hawks that visit my wife's bird feeders, for the exact reason stated in the video .... Easy meal. When they do, they're not around long! The Grackles and Purple Martins pester them relentlessly until they move on. Back in the day, we used to see nothing but Red-tailed Hawks here in central Texas. However, we don't see them much any more, for some reason. As far as raptors go, we see alot of Sharps and Crested Caracaras these days.
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I want to see a caracara someday!
Fantastic video, thank you for sharing this.🙂
Edifying. Many thanks.
Well, that just raises more questions.
excellent identifying factors.......
Fantastic video!
My first time on here i love it I use to love walking for miles away from home in the wild looking at all of creation in nature i felt at home there away from everything in my small little town looking for hawks are falcons i would see sparrow hawks and red tailed and red shouldered hawks and osprey and a bald eagle once and other birds of prey i always looked for falcons and also owls in the evening time as well so many beautiful and fond memories when i was with mother nature alone by myself with her
Great video. Thank you !
Great video thank you!
I see this beautiful birds 🐦 almost everyday. And eagles 🦅 also . Lots of them .
Where do you live?
@@sirbader1 Texas . They fly around my house, seating on my trees and backyard fence .
I always look for the shape of the tail. Thanks for your video!
Thanks for the video!
That was very helpful. Thank you!
your voice is soothing
Wow so cool
Thanks for sharing, I think you must more and more share about identification of birds 🕊️🙏 yeah, conserving nature with You 🧔
That was great! Thanks!
Brilliant.
1 am in the morning and I am a software engineer. God knows why I'm watching
we have a couple living in my field right next to the house. You never see this guy soaring. He's. Super lazy and just swings along the tree line . Never sits in a tree top either always sitting lower in the bushy part waiting for some mouse.
It took a while for me to identify these guys as I kept seeing it swinging through trees ahead of me down some lane in the trees or fight through them. For a long time I thought it was an owl because of this behavior and it always being dusk along with the size of it. Now one is around much of the day off and on. I used to think it was a huge broad shouldered hawk by the behavior until I saw the fox red tail one day.
I was mowing the field last week and it's like ringing the dinner bell. He kept landing 100 yards ahead in a tree then when I was under him he would fly ahead another 100 yards and wait. He kept this up until he found what he was after then left..... neat birds
Thank you 🙏🏾♥️ this really helped me.
I live in Milwaukee WI, about two months ago driving near Stevens point me and my partner from work saw a half bare tree with 15 or more Hawks in it. I thought it was strange , I've never heard of them in flocks?
I would add a Sharp-shinned hawk's movements are fast like a kestrel and are more likely hunting a small bird.
Haven't been able to disseminate which hawk I have at my work but it's one of those you showed.
Actually probably a Coopers hawk
Thanks for the clarification. I live out in the country, and I see red-tails and golden eagles all the time. But one day stopped the car in the driveway because one wouldn't get out of my way for some reason, got a good look at it and was confused because no red on the tail. Must have been a young one.
After it was satisfied with looking at me it flew up into the fur tree above. Not sure why it was on the ground, or why it seemed unbothered about me driving up, rolling down my window and asking it to move. Maybe it was trying to get a snake or vole that eluded it. Nothing wrong with it that I could tell, other than it being seemingly more curious than other hawks. Thought it may have been a different species because of the tail and behavior, but nope.
I like the wing pattern tips. But I had always understood that the belted pattern of plumage on the Red-Tailed was a significant and easy identifier, am I mistaken in this?
You, sir, have an incredible voice for narration. You sound like the narrator from the movie, ‘Stand By Me’. You should release audiobooks or at the least, tell me where this accent is from :)
For today I am done! I think I saw a Cooper's Hawk for the first time this past spring. But - have watched so many red hawk comparison videos that I have questioned what I saw. I liked your video I think I was a Cooper's Hawk. But who knows when I might see one again!
If it helps, the Cooper's Hawk is about the size of a crow, whereas a Red-Tailed is quite a bit bigger, about midway between crow and goose.
Probably a Red Shouldered Hawk.
The easiest way is listening for their calls.
not really, you usually only hear there calls if there perched and most people dont even notice them then, thats why i think it was a good idea showing them from beneith in the video becouse you mostly only see them when the're soaring anyway
How many predatory bird in nature?
Eagle, Hawk, Falcon, Accipiter, Kite, Buzzard, Harrier, Osprey, Kestrel... : " Yes! "
Classic .thanks ❤❤
Thank you! This is most, informative. And...Red Tailed Hawks do not always, have red tails. Perfect, because I have never seen their red tails, lol!
Thank you
I saw an all-white hawk sitting at the very top of a huge pine tree in Connecticut the other day. It was good sized, about the size of a red-tailed hawk. It was a cloudless, blue sky, sunny morning, so the sun was completely illuminating it, like an angel. I drove by, saw it, and had to turn around to go back to look at it, because I couldn't believe what I had seen.
. It was very high up, so I couldn't get very detailed look at it ... . it looked like a Snowy Owl.; except that it wasn't. I could see enough of it, to see that it had a very small head, like a hawk. Not at all, an owl's head. It was definitely not a snowy owl. The body shape was all wrong. I took some photos, but they didn't come out well. So i'm just going to wonder now, what it was ,,, :D
EDIT: I just found it! a Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk -- it was so cool looking!
I hear the Red-Shouldered most often..
Is that intro a slowdown of a wood thrush song?
I like birds.
"Classics" Thanks, Merci.
My man
im here in 2022..ohio. just saw an all black bird about the size of an adult crow, eating a dead rabbit my driveway. however when it took off the tail was quite big and just the bottom of the wing tipped with white. still not sure what it is
Hello, I have two hawks but I really can't identify them, i found them on street, injured, they are babies though, can you help me?
I was puzzled when he said a Swainson's is a little bigger than a Red-tail Hawk because Red-tails are bigger..
I jusr saw a bird fly over head of me in the back yard . It was at least almost the size of a petite house cat..it made a loud low craw sound but i couldnt make out if i thought i saw a bat or a bird because this is at night after midnight literally and its a very odd coincidence.
I tried to bring a flashlight when i noticed it flying so it wasnt flying past too fast for me to notice some light feathers like white underneath the wings. it was obvious from the movement of the flight that it was a pretty sizey bird. Raptor possibly? In this climate? any one have any idea of a bird that would fly those hours and sound like this and such? It made that type of cry twice as it passed by st least
And the differences between hawks, falcons and eagles are . . .?
I wish I could identify them easily.
Are you familiar with Hawks native to Florida? I just saw some amazing flight and seems to be a Red Shouldered Hawk but I'm not sure.
Red shouldered hawk have black or dark brown with white spots on the back, very red chest, easily mistaken for Cooper's Hawk.
@@sirbader1 thanks for the response. I will pull up the pictures and compare.
I've assume these birds hunt/live in my neighborhood as i see them frequently.
Interesting .. Still not sure what I have captured in my latest video.
How about the calls?
I'm trying to identify a hawk that's been trying very hard to get my chickens... so far, they've been able to outrun it to safety, thankfully. It's quite large with at least a 3-4ft wing span, mostly white underneath and on its back with a brownish speckled design. It may be a red shouldered or a broad winged hawk, not sure... may be a red tail, but its back isn't brown, and it's really a huge bird. We're out in the piney woods country northwest of Houston. Any guess on which variety of hawk it might be?
Without seeing a photo I can not be sure, perhaps one of the species of Buteo that could winter in the area? If you do, would you mind posting a photo of the bird here? Or keeping an eye out for it to snag a photo of it next time?
It was hunting about 100 yds away near the pasture, and I used the zoom on my camera, so the photo isn't very good... if I can just figure out how to post it here. The post it's sitting on is about 4ft high and maybe 4 inches across, if that helps on size. I wish I could catch it in flight, but there's never enough time. Apparently no photos, only videos can be posted ...
you might be able to send it as a message to my account...I can tell you what it is if you do.
I found a family of red shoulder hawks in northwest Houston. They seem to be ally around that area.
This video would be improved by covering the rest of the hawks. I've never seen any of the hawks in the video, and the red-shouldered hawk which is the most common hawk in my area, isn't even mentioned.
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Just seen two buzzards in brookhouse hovering south yorkshire
What's the name of the whistling bird in your video i hear all the time but cannot identify this song bird
I had the same question. I have been trying to identify it for a while, but cannot find a video or sound clip that matches it.
Wow is so fast and dingr
6 minutes of descriptions and Not one mention of wing span or size in inches.
Can you identify the bird sounds in the intro. One is a thrush, but what is the other one, please?
sounds like a white throated sparrow to me
Thanks so much! @Jean Neely
Jean Neely Thanks so much. I checked it on Larkwire and your are right!
why do people get confused with great blue heron and great egret identification 🙄
At the intro 2nd bird call would anybody know what bird it is? Thanks
Sounded like a robin are maybe a cardinal
@@johnnyaingel5753 No not a robin or cardinal
Thrush
@@megthurrell2849 I think the first call was a Thrush. I'm interested in the second call. Thank
i seen a little bird chasing a hawk and it landed on its back lol
Buteos are Buzzards not hawks.
You didn't even mention falcons.
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Just passed a dead hawk on the trail I walked....felt so sorry for it