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Message: <blockquote data-quote="borealowl47" data-source="post: 1590761" data-attributes="member: 54350">cooper's hawk rangequoting from a friend,   " All three Accipiters are  certainly possible at Wanipigow, but Cooper's is by far the least likely.   Looks like Wanipigow is pretty close to the northern edge of their breeding  range in eastern Manitoba.  (They do range farther north in the western  part of the province.)  For the most part, they are not a bird of boreal  forest habitat.  By contrast, Sharp-shinned Hawks do range well into boreal  forest and get quite far north in Manitoba.  Goshawks, of course, are  principally a boreal forest species, and we normally only see them outside of  the boreal forest when it's not nesting season.       In the breeding season, I would  say Sharp-shinned Hawk is slightly more likely than Goshawk in the  area--primarily because they are a more abundant species.  In late fall  & winter, however, Sharp-shinned Hawks are extremely unlikely just about  everywhere in Manitoba, as are Cooper's Hawks.  Most of them have left us  by October.       So, probability says the bird in  your photos is a Northern Goshawk, since you say they were taken in late fall  (and the lack of foliage supports that), but the other two aren't absolutely  impossible.  I have seen Cooper's Hawks in November, although certainly not  nearly as far north as Wanipigow."</blockquote>