Editorial Type:
Article Category: Letter
| Online Publication Date: 09 May 2019
First Record of Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) Breeding in Puebla, Mexico
First Record of Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) Breeding in Puebla, Mexico
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Page Range: 215 – 219
DOI: 10.3356/JRR-18-74
Keywords:
Cooper's Hawk
; Accipiter cooperii;
breeding
;
Mexico
;
nesting
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range expansion
;
reproductive distribution
;
urban parks
Copyright: © 2019 The Raptor Research Foundation, Inc. 2019
Figure 1.
Distribution map of Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) across temperate North America, after Curtis et al. (2006). The site where Forcey (2001) discovered a nest in Oaxaca is shown with a grey triangle, and the site where we discovered a nest in Puebla (this report) is shown with a black star.
Figure 2.
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) nest in the city of Puebla, central Mexico: (top) three nestlings, 15–17 d after hatch, on 10 May 2018; (bottom) two nestlings approximately 24 d old on 19 May. Photos taken with a Canon EOS 7D Mark II, equipped with a Canon EF 100–400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens, shot at 400 mm. © José Antonio González-Oreja.
Contributor Notes
1 Email address: jgonzorj@hotmail.com
Received: 17 Sept 2018
Accepted: 28 Nov 2018