Nice shot! Looks like a Cooper's hawk to me based on the size.

Definitely some variety of hawk, have seen redtails all over the state. If you are into raptors, I often seen peregrine falcons chasing pigeons by the power house.

That is likely a red tailed hawk. Those spots on the breast tend to be more reddish with adult Coopers. Also, red tailed hawks are pretty common this time of year. Great shot!

Yep, that's a bird

Rough-legged Hawk.

It's that time of year.

I’m going with peregrine falcon which are very common in the area. Definitely not a red tailed hawk (wrong color, wrong markings) and 90% sure it’s not a Cooper’s hawk (head markings don’t look right).

It's Pidgeotto!

I agree, I think its a Coopers hawk.

Brown cheeks, white throat, brown/red tail. It's clearly a red-tailed hawk.

Peregrines have white cheeks with malar stripes, stripes from neck to tail on their underside, and a dark tail.

OP, was this bird bigger than a crow? If so, then it was definitely a red-tailed hawk.

That birds name is actually Hudson Hawk and it’s famous, ok. Look it up. Played by Bruce Willy

This is 100% a Red-tailed Hawk. Notice the band on their belly, that's a dead giveaway. Also, not all do, but this one has a red tail. Look at the tail feathers, you can see that they are a reddish color in contrast to the dark brown on the rest of its body.

Next time, I suggest posting in r/whatsthisbird, you might have more consistent answers :) Very neat find!

It’s a juvenile red-tailed hawk. Download Merlin, it’s a great way to ID birds.

It’s not a Cooper’s hawk. Cooper’s hawks are much smaller and leaner. This is a juvenile red-tailed hawk.

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It’s a juvenile red-tailed hawk.

Yes, much bigger

That eliminates falcon then. Fully grown adult peregrines are close in size to adult crows.

If the coloration on this bird was brown (can be hard to tell in a picture), then I'm pretty confident it's a red-tailed hawk.

Yea, and OP already responded that this bird was much larger than a crow. Cooper's hawks aren't that much bigger than crows, so, again, everything is pointing at red-tailed.

We had a similar bird land on our balcony and someone told me it was a juvenile female American kestrel.

(We are in Paulus Hook)

The tail on this one is a dead giveaway. Not all of them are kind enough to have such a clearly red tail feather popping out to identify them 😂

I know! I'm always relieved to see the red tail because that gives me less work, haha. But the belly band is also present in juveniles, which don't have their namesake red tails yet, which is why I like to point out that detail.

It looks much bigger than a Cooper's hawk.

It also has a white chest and a red tail. Cooper's hawks don't have either of those features generally.

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Red Tailed Hawk

Definitely a hawk. They like to eat pigeons and rats.

Very cool!

Definitely a

Hawk. They like to eat pigeons

And rats. Very cool!

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One of these flew buy me very fast on a glide and the sound it made going through the air has been ingraved in my brain, crazy sound

It’s a red tailed Hawk! But kestrels are lovely

Nice, we have one that lives in the courtyard of the med school in Newark , never know the species

Agreed here, long term JC resident and can confirm we have a few really nice raptors hanging around... I see a Red Tailed Hawk once in while near JSQ area, sometimes near the courthouse, really amazing to see in flight.

I use Merlin too! Love that app.

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That bastard has been ripping heads off pigeons and leaving them on my patio all year!

Have you ever seen this BBC video comparing sounds of different birds in flight? https://youtu.be/-WigEGNnuTE

The pigeon cracks me up, just the living embodiment of derp.

That is a bird good sir

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