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Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
This species reaches the southern edge of its winter range in our region. Howell and Webb consider the species to be an uncommon to rare winter visitor to northern Central America and confine the range almost entirely to Guatemala. Land described it as rare in Guatemala and confined to the highlands west of Guatemala City and at Coban. Monroe reported only two Honduran records of this species in the Gulf of Fonseca in southern Honduras, yet Bonta and Anderson give the status as uncommon (seen less than once a week but every few months). Komar and Dominguez classify the species as a migrant in El Salvador (which means that there are at least 5 records). This elevation of the status in recent publications might represent a real change in status, but more likely is a result of better coverage and an improvement in identification skills. I have only once ever identified this species with certainty, which was a single bird at Finca Giralda, in the hills just west of Santa Tecla in El Salvador.