Which Looney Tunes character is a hungry chicken hawk named Henery?

Which Looney Tunes character is a hungry chicken hawk named Henery? The answer is Henery Hawk.

Henery Hawk is a small, brown chickenhawk whose defining ambition is to catch and eat a chicken. The joke is that he has been sheltered from the world and does not actually know what a chicken looks like. Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg exploit that ignorance by convincing him that one another is a chicken.

The character first appeared in Chuck Jones’s The Squawkin’ Hawk in 1942. Robert McKimson later redesigned and developed him, especially in cartoons featuring Foghorn Leghorn. Henery’s high-pitched voice, New York accent, angry confidence, and repeated threats make him more formidable than his size suggests.

A common mistake is identifying Foghorn Leghorn as the chicken hawk. Foghorn is the large rooster Henery frequently tries to capture, while Barnyard Dawg is another character who helps manipulate him. Henery’s name is intentionally spelled “Henery,” preserving the character’s distinctive cartoon identity rather than using the conventional spelling “Henry.”