Bird
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 25 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 25

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 25
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 25
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.




Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.
Salt-pruned forests and shrub thickets behind coastal dunes.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Dense evergreen shrub wetlands and bay forests on wet, acid peat of the Coastal Plain.
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.
Tree plantations and managed pine
Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)



Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.
Depression ponds and limesinks
Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.
Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.
Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Other habitats in its models (329)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida. Those recorded in Florida first, the rest by region.
In Florida 6
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer and winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- South Florida Pine Rockland Summer and winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
Elsewhere in the South (104)
- Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Peatland Pocosin Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Summer and winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Cumberland Riverscour Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loblolly-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
- East-Central Texas Plains Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Dry-Mesic Slope Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Savanna and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Edwards Plateau Limestone Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Edwards Plateau Mesic Canyon Summer.
- Edwards Plateau Riparian Summer.
- Llano Uplift Acidic Forest, Woodland and Glade Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer and winter.
- Lower Mississippi River Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Mississippi Delta Maritime Forest Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Lowland Summer.
- Northern Crowley's Ridge Sand Forest Summer and winter.
- Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Woodland Summer and winter.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- South Texas Lomas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer and winter.
- Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Bog and Fen Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Crowley's Ridge Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer and winter.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Southwestern Great Plains Canyon Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Calcareous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Floodplain Summer.
- Tamaulipan Mixed Deciduous Thornscrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Savanna Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Catahoula Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Chenier and Upper Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sandhill Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
Northeast (26)
- Acadian Low-Elevation Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Acadian-Appalachian Alpine Tundra Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Acadian-Appalachian Montane Spruce-Fir Forest Summer.
- Acadian-Appalachian Subalpine Woodland and Heath-Krummholz Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Maritime Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer and winter.
- Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer and winter.
- Eastern Boreal Floodplain Summer.
- Great Lakes Freshwater Estuary and Delta Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Alkaline Conifer-Hardwood Swamp Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Freshwater Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Hardwoods Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Northern Pine-(Oak) Forest Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Pine-Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- North-Central Interior Wet Flatwoods Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Pine Barrens Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Heathland and Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens Summer.
Midwest (31)
- Boreal Aspen-Birch Forest Summer.
- Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Alvar Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Dune Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Wet-Mesic Lakeplain Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Lakes Wooded Dune and Swale Summer.
- Great Plains Prairie Pothole Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian Jack Pine-Red Pine Forest Summer.
- Laurentian Pine-Oak Barrens Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer and winter.
- North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Interior Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- North-Central Oak Barrens Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Aspen Forest and Parkland Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Floodplain Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Mixedgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northwestern Great Plains Riparian Summer.
- Northwestern Great Plains Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Western Great Plains Open Freshwater Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Saline Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Sand Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
West (69)
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Apacherian-Chihuahuan Semi-Desert Grassland and Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Central and Southern California Mixed Evergreen Woodland Summer.
- Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Columbia Plateau Western Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- East Cascades Mesic Montane Mixed-Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- East Cascades Oak-Ponderosa Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Great Basin Foothill and Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Great Basin Semi-Desert Chaparral Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Subalpine Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- North American Warm Desert Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North American Warm Desert Riparian Mesquite Bosque Summer, beside its main habitat.
- North American Warm Desert Wash Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern and Central California Dry-Mesic Chaparral Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern California Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Northern Pacific Mesic Subalpine Woodland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Avalanche Chute Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Conifer Swamp Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Foothill Conifer Wooded Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Lower Montane, Foothill and Valley Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Montane-Foothill Deciduous Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Deciduous Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine Woodland and Parkland Summer.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Upper Montane Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Northern Rocky Mountain Western Larch Savanna Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Dwarf-Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Fell-Field Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Dry Tundra Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Foothill Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Lower Montane-Foothill Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Poor-Site Lodgepole Pine Forest Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Dry-Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Limber-Bristlecone Pine Woodland Summer.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Mesic Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Woodland Summer.
- Southern Colorado Plateau Sand Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Dry-Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Mesic Montane Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Montane-Subalpine Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Savanna Summer.
- Southern Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Woodland Summer.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Aquatic Bed Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Freshwater Emergent Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Montane Wet Meadow Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Temperate Pacific Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Closed Depression Wetland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Foothill and Piedmont Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Riparian Woodland and Shrubland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Willamette Valley Upland Prairie and Savanna Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Willamette Valley Wet Prairie Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Wyoming Basins Dwarf Sagebrush Shrubland and Steppe Summer, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (93)
- Acadian Salt Marsh and Estuary Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer and winter.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Forested Wetland Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
- Boreal Acidic Peatland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Boreal Jack Pine-Black Spruce Forest Summer.
- Boreal White Spruce-Fir-Hardwood Forest Summer.
- Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer and winter.
- Developed, Low Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Developed, Medium Intensity Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer and winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
- Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Summer and winter.
- Great Lakes Coastal Marsh Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Introduced Upland Vegetation - Treed Summer and winter.
- Laurentian-Acadian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Laurentian-Acadian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Laurentian-Acadian Swamp Systems Summer.
- Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Modified/Managed Southern Tall Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Northwestern Great Plains - Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Woodland and Savanna Summer.
- Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Grassland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Burned Shrubland Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Chained Pinyon-Juniper Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Recently Logged Areas Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra/Fell-field/Dwarf-shrub Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Rocky Mountain Montane Riparian Systems Summer.
- South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer and winter.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-Heath Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Southern Piedmont/Ridge and Valley Upland Depression Swamp Summer and winter.
- Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer and winter.
- Tamaulipan Clay Grassland Summer, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Mesquite Upland Scrub Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Tamaulipan Riparian Systems Summer and winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Depressional Wetland Systems Summer and winter, beside its main habitat.
- Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer and winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 61 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 12 of 67 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 1 of 67 counties.
Also found in its main habitats
Its main habitats in Florida, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.
Cooper's Hawk uses many habitats in Florida; these are its 3 most characteristic.
Swamps
Birds 94
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- White-crowned PigeonPatagioenas leucocephala
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Hooded WarblerWilsonia citrina
- Mangrove CuckooCoccyzus minor
Plants 353
- May HawthornCrataegus aestivalis
- Carolina AshFraxinus caroliniana
- Water HickoryCarya aquatica
- Bent SedgeCarex styloflexa
- Cypress-swamp SedgeCarex joorii
- Dark-green SedgeCarex venusta
- Ravenfoot SedgeCarex crus-corvi
- Weak Stellate SedgeCarex seorsa
- White-edge SedgeCarex debilis
- Iris hexagonaIris hexagona
- Swamp ButtercupRanunculus hispidus var. nitidus
- Drooping BulrushScirpus lineatus
Pine flatwoods
Birds 70
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Red-cockaded WoodpeckerPicoides borealis
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Crested CaracaraCaracara cheriway
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Florida Grasshoper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum floridanus
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
Plants 315
- Vaccinium darrowiiVaccinium darrowii
- Vaccinium myrsinitesVaccinium myrsinites
- Chapman's CrownbeardVerbesina chapmanii
- Verbesina heterophyllaVerbesina heterophylla
- ScareweedBaptisia simplicifolia
- Florida IronweedVernonia blodgettii
- Scrubland GoldenasterChrysopsis subulata
- Telephus SpurgeEuphorbia telephioides
- Florida Sands St.john's-wortHypericum exile
- Hypericum microsepalumHypericum microsepalum
- Oclemena reticulataOclemena reticulata
- Garber's GayfeatherLiatris garberi
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Birds 76
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Louisiana WaterthrushSeiurus motacilla
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Kentucky WarblerOporornis formosus
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
Plants 286
- Elliott's BlueberryVaccinium elliottii
- White Panicled Aster; Eastern Lined AsterSymphyotrichum lanceolatum var. latifolium
- Possumhaw HollyIlex decidua
- Cherrybark OakQuercus pagoda
- Swamp Post OakQuercus similis
- Spruce Pine; Walters Pine; Cedar PinePinus glabra
- Blunt Broom SedgeCarex tribuloides
- Louisiana SedgeCarex louisianica
- Heartleaf NettleUrtica chamaedryoides
- Arnoglossum sulcatumArnoglossum sulcatum
- Gulf Sebastian-bushDitrysinia fruticosa
- American BladdernutStaphylea trifolia
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Cooper's Hawk
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)














































