"Chickenhawk" was formerly the name of two species of hawk known to prey on barnyard fowl - the Red-tailed Hawk and the Cooper's Hawk. The term is now obsolete as applied to birds. For other meanings, see Chickenhawk.
Chickenhawk or Chicken Hawk is an unofficial designation for three species of North American hawk -- the Cooper's Hawk, the Sharp-shinned Hawk or the Red-tailedHawk.
Although Cooper and Sharp-shinned hawks may attack other birds, chickens do not make a up a significant amount of their diet; red-tailed hawks have varied diets though they too would be unlikely to attack poultry.
Officially, per the American Ornithologists' Union's bird naming, the term has become obsolete as applied to birds, but still enjoys widespread colloquial use in many rural areas of where either of the three species has been seen as a threat to small outdoor animals kept as pets or livestock, especially chickens.
chickenhawk, dear readers, is one of two things: either a voting-age pedophile, or a warmonger who has never gone to war.
Most of today's chickenhawks not only haven't been to war, but studiously avoided it by any means available.
The problem with today's chickenhawks is that they're so used to having everything done for them, they think by sending other people off to war, they will make themselves into men by proxy.
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