I like seeing them clean up on the finches, oreoles, blue birds, robins, mockingbirds, quail and warblers. Right.
That is about 90% BS. Once in a while the coops will get a dove. Mostly it's starlings, sparrows cat birds and black birds. Most of the native species have evolved with coopers hawks and spend a lot of time in trees whereas the coops because of their high speed attacks around buildings and trees are taking their meals as they are getting off the ground. Quail will catch hell from them on occasion, but during the years I raised them for working my dogs I never lost a bird to any raptors. Great Horned Owls and Goshawks can be very hard on localized grouse populations, much more so than fox.
