Cooper's or Sharp Shinned Hawk?

[BonNuit]

Could anyone with more experience identify this Chicken Murdering Asshat hawk for me? I tried to get a good picture, and this was the best I could do. Thanks!

 

[CluckerFamily]

I don’t have these breeds by me but it looks like a Cooper’s Hawk from the belly feathers.
Hopefully others will know better than I.

 

[Folly's place]

I'm not positive, but sharp shinned hawks have small heads and beaks, and are smaller then the Cooper's hawks. Sharp shinned hawks are not the smallest hawks out there, but small. We had one here this fall, looking for mice and songbirds at a wild bird feeder. Seemed way too small to go after our chickens, even our bantams.
Coopers hawks have killed bantams and young birds here.
Sorry to not be sure of the ID.
Keep your survivors in their safe coop and run for at least two weeks, and most hawks will have moved on by then. Longer time might be necessary though.
Mary

 

[roosterhavoc]

https://www.audubon.org/news/a-beginners-guide-iding-coopers-and-sharp-shinned-hawks

 

[roosterhavoc]

That’s a Cooper’s hawk.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Usually sharp shinned are the ones you see flying and think oh that’s a bird....wait no d*mnit that’s a hawk.

 

[Charles K]

Red tailed hawk

 

[BonNuit]

Red tailed hawk

Really, what makes you think so?

 

[Charles K]

I looked it up on google and compared the pictures. I didn’t want to give you the wrong answer. Guessing is fun, but if you know what kind it is. Fish and game may let you shoot them or remove them for you if you can’t.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I looked it up on google and compared the pictures. I didn’t want to give you the wrong answer. Guessing is fun, but if you know what kind it is. Fish and game may let you shoot them or remove them for you if you can’t.

That is not a red tailed hawk.