The Cooper's Hawk: Breeding Ecology and Natural History of a Winged Huntsman - Hardcoverby Robert Rosenfield (Author) The Cooper's Hawk presents the general reader and professional biologists interested in birds and nature, with an authoritative account of the breeding biology of the what is perhaps the most abundant, backyard breeding raptor in North America. This urban status exists despite cross generational human persecution through shooting of individuals and indirect felling of forests, their apparent preferred nesting habitat.