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Cogswell
1949
Accipiter cooperi
Mar. 5 - Wildcat Canyon, 3/4 mi. E of Spruce St. entrance
to Tollen Regional Park, Contra Costa Co., Calif.
- a sharp squeaky "sbeer" or "skeek"
repeated 3 or 4 times,
from brushy hillside (I'm quite sure
from a Cooper's Hawk) was followed
immediately by calling (chi-ca-go)
of several quail in the vicinity.
A Cooper's Hawk was seen by several
of us in the Zoology 125 class a short while
before this, as it glided thru the oaks on
a small ridge E of the main canyon.
In the P.M. one was seen soaring over
the vegetational analysis study area (open
grassland to bits of riparian oak woodland).
This bird had a large gap in the middle
of the right wing.