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A hawk eager to get a bird's eye view of a highway was caught staring into a traffic camera in Minneapolis. ... of a curious wide-eyed red-tailed hawk looking directly into the lens as cars pass ...
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.
Western kingbird attacking red tailed hawk with photo - Denver Post, 30 September 2009; BirdLife species factsheet for Tyrannus verticalis "Tyrannus verticalis". Avibase. "Western kingbird media". Internet Bird Collection. Western kingbird photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University) Interactive range map of Tyrannus verticalis at IUCN Red List maps
Zone-tailed hawk: Accipitridae: Buteo albonotatus Kaup, 1847: 248 Red-tailed hawk: Accipitridae: Buteo jamaicensis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 249 Rufous-tailed hawk: Accipitridae: Buteo ventralis Gould, 1837: 250 Ferruginous hawk: Accipitridae: Buteo regalis (Gray, GR, 1844) 251 Rough-legged buzzard: Accipitridae: Buteo lagopus (Pontoppidan, 1763) 252 ...
Red-Tailed Hawk. 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 ...
Strange bird bedfellows have been spotted in San Simeon, where a pair of bald eagle parents have apparently adopted a baby red-tailed hawk they originally brought back to their nest as food.
Red-shouldered hawk, Buteo lineatus; Broad-winged hawk, Buteo platypterus; Swainson's hawk, Buteo swainsoni; Ridgway's hawk, Buteo ridgwayi; Short-tailed hawk, Buteo brachyurus; White-throated hawk, Buteo albigula; Galápagos hawk, Buteo galapagoensis; Gray-lined hawk, Buteo nitidus; Gray hawk, Buteo plagiatus; Zone-tailed hawk, Buteo albonotatus
[5] [7] An exception is the short-tailed hawk, which is a relatively small and agile species and is locally a small bird-hunting specialist. [14] The Hawaiian hawk , which evolved on an isolated group of islands with no terrestrial mammals, was also initially a bird specialist, although today it preys mainly on introduced rodents.