Red-tailed hawk |
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Description
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18-25" A large stoclky hawk. Typical light-phase birds have whitish brest and rust-colored tail. Young birds are duller, more streaked, and lack rust -color tail of adult; they are disstinguised from red-shoulders and swainson's hawks by their whiter chest, stocky build, and broaderd, more rounded wings. This species is quite variable in color, especially in the west, where blackish individuals occur; these usually retain the rusty tail. |
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Voice
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High-pitched descending scream
with a hoarse quality, keeeer.
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Habitat
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Deciduous forests and open
country of various kinds, including tundra, plains,and farmlands.
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Nesting
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2 or 3 white eggs, spotted with brown, in a bulky nest of sticks lined with shreds of bark and bits of fresh green vegetation, placed in a tall tree or on a rock ledge. |
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