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    Michigan, Hawk ID help please

    For some reason (let's not worry why) I can suddenly see your photo at much higher resolution - and it's definitely a Coopers hawk: big bill, sloping forehead, blocky rear head-shape. Oh, I wouldn't agree. For immature Cooper's hawk one goes on the thinness of the streaks on lower central belly...
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    Michigan, Hawk ID help please

    Adults are about as difficult as immatures. Structural differences are the same, and on adult Cooper's hawk look also for crown darker than upperparts and pale sides to hindneck. In most birds, the subspecies isn't interesting - it doesn't tell you anything, and (except sometimes for migrants) a...
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    Michigan, Hawk ID help please

    Yes - (an immature of) one of those two Accipiter species - but photo-quality is too low to be sure which (no offence). Seeing the underpart pattern and structure of forehead/bill and tail-tip are the most useful things. But it looks quite chunky and big-headed so I'd guess Cooper's hawk.
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