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The red-tailed hawk is now placed in the genus Buteo that was erected by French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799. [15] [16] In flight showing the red tail A red-tailed hawk hovers in the wind. The red-tailed hawk is a member of the subfamily Buteoninae, which includes about 55 currently recognized species.
Red-tailed hawk removing fur from a rodent before eating it, Mission Peak Regional Preserve, California. Hawks feed on a variety of smaller animals such as snakes, lizards, fish, mice, rabbits, squirrels, birds, or any other type of small game that is found on the ground. [23]
English: A Red-tailed Hawk removing fur from a rodent before eating the rodent at Mission Peak Regional Preserve, California. 中文（简体）： 择掉猎物皮毛的红尾鵟 Embed with |thumbtime=N for changing the screen shot used for the thumbnail image.
A baby red-tailed hawk, right, was plucked by bald eagle parents and is now sharing a nest in San Simeon with two eaglets, seen on May 21, 2024.
Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings. In the Old World, members of this genus are called "buzzards", but "hawk" is used in the New World (Etymology: Buteo is the Latin name of the common buzzard [1]).
Extremely common in North America, the red-tailed hawk is often sighted soaring in circles overhead. As Wilson notes, smaller birds will attack and annoy red-tails, representing outside forces ...
Left to right: Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, and the red-tailed hawk (not to scale). In the United States, chickenhawk or chicken hawk is an unofficial designation for three species of North American hawks in the family Accipitridae: Cooper's hawk (also called a quail hawk), the sharp-shinned hawk, and the Buteo species red-tailed hawk.
Pale Male (1990 – May 16, 2023), or Palemale, was a red-tailed hawk that resided in and near New York City's Central Park from the 1990s until 2023. Birdwatcher and author Marie Winn gave him his name because of the unusually light coloring of his head.