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It's so true. I've plenty of field that's loaded with mice. Hawks regularly perch on the phone wire not 300 yards from where my birds are in electric poultry fencing. Will I eventually lose a bird to a bird of prey? I've no doubt of it. Eventually something will happen making for low mice...

Then there is the Red Shouldered Hawk (often confused with Red Tail due to shear size). I've never had any serious problems with hawks. I keep young standard sized birds in a covered pen until over 3 months of age. Once I was admiring a hawk coming in on a swooping dive until it dawned on...

No chicken hawk list is complete without the Marsh Hawk aka Harrier Hawk aka Hen Harrier, few other alias one being adult males called Grey Ghost. America, Canada, England , EU, parts of Asia- Lets just say it's covers the entire northern hemisphere for range.