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From: mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Chicken Hawks
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Date: 5 Dec 89 17:49:53 GMT
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In article <17670@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, dragon@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sam Conway) writes:
> While it is true that the Cooper's hawk is the one that is most
> commonly referred to as "chicken hawk", the term has a tendency
> to be applied to any raptor seen within 100 feet of a chicken coop.

	There is no doubt that farmers used the raids of Cooper's
Hawks as an excuse for blowing any raptor they saw out of the sky.
I remember reading a story of a man who watched a farmer shoot a
Great Horned Owl. After the deed was done, the farmer was overheard
muttering "durn chicken hawk".

Mike