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Red-tailed Hawk

 

This is probably the most common hawk in North America. If you’ve got sharp eyes you’ll see several individuals on almost any long car ride, anywhere. Red-tailed Hawks soar above open fields, slowly turning circles on their broad, rounded wings. Other times you’ll see them atop telephone poles, eyes fixed on the ground to catch the movements of a vole or a rabbit, or simply waiting out cold weathe

 

Photo courtesy of Bill Hubick 2025
Text courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2025