How common is it for a hawk to attack human beings?

It’s very unusual. My guess would be that the hawk had a nest or fledglings nearby that it was protecting.

I’ve never seen or heard of a hawk attack on humans, so I’m guessing uncommon.

However, there is a hawk named Tobias out there somewhere that I daresay is fiercer than any other.

I got dive bombed by a Cooper’s hawk last year on my walk! It didn’t get me though,but it was trying to intimidate me for sure.It was quiet and quick! Had I caught him,he would’ve made some interesting Mc Nuggets ;)

Yes, perhaps in defense of its nesting territory or fledglings, I recently had a big redtail try to nab my big barred rock rooster, lol!

Lost some feathers but couldn’t attain liftoff! hahaha

It’s fairly unusual for a hawk to be anywhere near a human, so it’s even more unusual for it to attack one, but as above, in protecting their young it probably is not unusual. What’s unusual is for a human to wander close enough to a nest site to provoke such behavior.

I was dive bombed by a nighthawk (which is not a hawk) once, and it scared the peanuts out of me. They make this crazy buzzing noise when they dive and it was behind me and I had no idea what was going on. Apparently they’re very protective of their territory.

I have only heard of it when a human is near a nest.

An old boss of mine decided he wanted a hawk so he started climbing a telephone pole to get an egg out of a nest he knew about. He got about halfway up.

His whole world suddenly became nothing but talons swooping down on him.

He let go, fell on his back, and abandoned the plan.

@jfos

You just made me timewarp back to my third-grade Animorphs books. Is that what you were referring to, with the hawk named Tobias?

@Arisztid-Ilol!
I met a man that told me he was chased by a turkey vulture while riding his bike in a rural area.He said it flew right behind his head and was so close he could smell it! I told him he must not have much time left!LOL

@Seek_Kolinahr Yes! I used to read them too. Whenever I think of hawks, I think of Tobias.

Only Lucy could come up with an anwer like that. chased on a bike by a turkey buzzard! now, thats original. john

Here’s a chilling news story

FutureMemory, thanks for the reference. i will print this story and give it to my neighbor. john

@jfos

That’s awesome! I keep saying I’m going to take up falconry, and name my first birds Tobias and Taliesin. ^_^

@Seek_Kolinahr That would be impressive.

That’s just cool!

@john65pennington -I didn’t make it up,I swear!lol!

That must have been one bad toupe to get attacked by a hawk!

It happens quite frequently to me. In fact, just the other day, a hawk wa—
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“he was sitting on his front porch”

Does he live in a Hawks nest?

ChaMaz, he told me he had just finished mowing his lawn and was just resting on his front porch. i can only assume the hawk needed glasses, if he thought my neighbor was his dinner. at first, i did not believe him. but the scars on his head would match the talons of a hawk, so i have no choice but to believe him.

Once I saw a hawk impale a huge gopher snake on a barbwire fence and start eating it alive as it was still writhing around…...wild!

I was flying my son’s Yo Gabba Gabba kite in the back yard yesterday, when three buzzards came circling, trying to figure out what the hell that big yellow bird was, and whether the erratic flying was a sign of impending doom.

I thought that was pretty cool, but the Killer Hawk has me beaten.

I personally experienced an hawk attack on 4/20/2010 in bushnell, florida. I was walking on a dirt road with large trees on either side and could hear the sound of two hawks. I did not realize until after the attack that I was almost directly under the tree where the hawks nest lay. The nest was very high up in a tree. I turned around to head back down the dirt road back to my father’s house. Without warning or any sound, I suddenly felt a very powerful impact on the back and top of my head. The impact was so powerful that I almost lost my balance and fell to the ground. I saw to my left a giant wing span and then realized that a hawk had just attacked me as he flew up towards a high tree branch. I turned around to get a view of this bird when all of the sudden, he was back heading straight for my face. This hawk was so swift that I could not react in time to try to bat it away. The second impact was harder than the first and his claws dug into my upper left and right forhead and just above my right eyebrow. The semi deep scratches were not very painful but the blunt force of the hawk left me with a headache for atleast a half an hour. Blood rant down my face from the scratches. I later learned that one of these hawks had also attached the nieghber and this was because the two hawks had baby hawks in their nest. My experience really pissed me off and I considered killing it with a shotgun. If there is any advice I could give to someone to possibly prevent such an attack would be the following:
If you hear a hawk squaking loudly by itself or with it’s mate, let this be a possible warning that you are getting too close to their comfort zone. I did not realize the power that a hawk has when it attackes. I imagine the speed, claws and size of the hawk all are factors on how hard one can fy into you.

Scott Llop

I was lucky enough to come home from work one night and saw a hawk sitting on my balcony. I opened the door and he stayed right there. I went back into my house and got my camera. I took 45 pictures of him. He was a red tailed hawk. The date was June 9, 2011. I was about 6 feet away from him. He didn’t budge one inch. He didn’t seem to have any fear of me what so ever. Nor I of him.

@havarti

Wouldn’t you attack to protect your ‘nest’?

Killing any bird of prey is an extreme offense, punishable by serious fines.

Your ego was more scraped than your face.