Do hawks only hunt during the day? How big of a prey are they able to catch?

Question

I have a 10 lb yorkie that I am worried about letting outside because I have heard of them taking puppies. There are two huge hawks in my area. Not sure what made them come here but this is the first time I have noticed them in the 3 years I have been here.

Answer 1

They only hunt during the day. They will catch medium sized (3 or 4 lbs) rabbits but prefer small squirrels and snakes. A 10 lb dog is safe and they wont come anywhere near people generally.

Large owls and eagles are the only threats from the air.

Answer 2

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Do hawks only hunt during the day? How big of a prey are they able to catch?
I have a 10 lb yorkie that I am worried about letting outside because I have heard of them taking puppies. There are two huge hawks in my area. Not sure what made them come here but this is the first time I have noticed them in the 3 years I have been here.

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Do Hawks Hunt At Night

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Suitti gavea good answer, so a few more points. Dinosaurs were about for a -long- time. From sometime in the Triassic, all the way through the Jurassic and all through the Cretaceous. Of course the actual species present changes as species evolved and became extinct.During this vast swathe of geological history there have been considerable environmental changes, during much of the Cretaceous for example golbal CO2 levels were high, global temperatures were high, and global sea levels were high, - large parts of europe were shallow seas and ther was an extensive sea in the middle of what is now the USA. Where I live ( Eastern UK) in the middle jurassic the environment was subtropical with low lying coastal deltas subject to periodic flooding. Dinosaurs walked ther, I have collected their footprints (for a museum) As Suitti says, humans are **VERY** versatile and could have survived in lots of places. Would you have seen lots of the large predator dinos? Probably not as this is basic ecology, you do not get lots of -any- large predator but there were smaller predatory dinos that would be a nuisance to human sized prey too. Remember that our distant ancestors, smallish mammals would be about too, not a great threat there though :-) There is certainly some evidence that some types of dino, e.g. some sauropods moved in herds, which would be an impressive sight ( from a safe distance). Dinos sat at the top of a large, complex ecosystem, so ther would be everything from beetles (and some pretty big dragonflies) to big, dangerous non-dino predators such as crocodiles. Rivers would teem with fish, the air would buzz with insects, and, in the later part of 'dinotime' the dinosaurs feathery cousins, birds would be flitting about. Remember that flowering plants (in the strict biological sense) did not come on the scene till late on in the long stretch of time Dino's were about, and definitely no grasses so lots of ferns, conifers, cycads, ginkoes and, certainly in the mid-jurassic environment I am familiar with, lots of horsetails. This might make finding edible plant food a little difficult. How a T Rex or a hungry Allosaur would react to a bunch of apes with sticks that got *BANG* is pretty hard to predict. The BBC series "Walking with Dinosaurs" and some background reading on paleoenvironments would be a good start.

Answer 6

Yes they do primarily hunt during the day, and it is possible that they could get your dog at that weight. I am not sure of the weight capacity they are able to carry - I guess that it would depend on the size of the hawk.

Answer 7

In the spring, I had to stop my Jeep and wait for a hawk to get a good bite on his rabbit so he could pick it up and fly to the side of the road with it. I could not believe my eye's when he did it. He got that rabbit at least ten feet off the ground before he landed on the edge of a field. It was a full grown rabbit from Ohio. At least 5 pounds.

Answer 8

yes most members of the hawk family tend to hunt in the daytime rather than at night. well for one hawks eyes are not really the best eyes for seeing at night like the owl's. i would say that the largest thing i've seen a hawk with is a very young deer, it looked like a newborn deer. so take caution if you have any cats that stay outside or any small dogs like a chihuahua, b/c in my opinion they could easily be swept up!

Answer 9

most hawks hunt by day, only two specie's hunt at night and do not live in america,, and none of the american hawks hunt anything larger than rabbits usually.. unless those hawks are really hungry I wouldn't worry about Yorkie,,

Answer 10

not sure when they hunt, but I have watched a video in MO with a hawk carrying off a full grown cat, so yes a yorkie would/could be carried off as well