My favorite team. When they do the gator chomp it's so iconic and original.
They should curve their arms so it would just slightly come off as a beak closing.
One of the best iowa AD moments was when bowlsby (I believe but may have been Barta) said iowa would no longer play those teams that disrespect native Americans by having mascots named after them. When asked about iowa, he said hawkeye was a form of hawk basically.
The swarm doesn’t fit either, Hawks don’t fly like that, most fly single file. I think that one at a time would be more appropriate for Iowa.