Red-shouldered Hawk: Large hawk with brown upperparts and head. Underparts are white with rust-red barring. Wings are finely barred above with red-brown shoulders and pale below with red-brown wash and dark tips. Tail is dark with thick white bands. Sexes are similar. Juvenile has dark-streaked white underparts.
Red-shouldered Hawk: Resident in the eastern woodlands and west of the Rocky Mountains; also in New England and the Great Lakes region during the summer.
"Kee-yer"
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Family
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Species
Buteo lineatus
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Length17 - 24
Inches
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Wingspan41
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Red-shouldered Hawk: Large hawk with brown upperparts and head. Underparts are white with rust-red barring. The wings are finely barred above with red-brown shoulders and pale below with red-brown wash and dark tips. Tail is dark with thick white bands.
● Song: "Kee-yer"
● Foraging & Feeding: Red-shouldered Hawk: Diet of consists of small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and large insects. Hunts while perched or soaring.
● Breeding & nesting: Red-shouldered Hawk: Two to six brown marked, white to blue eggs are laid in a large stick nest lined with finer materials and built in a tree. Eggs are incubated for 28 days by both sexes.
● Similar species: Red-shouldered Hawk: Broad-winged Hawk lacks red shoulders, has black-and-white bands on tail of even width, and a crisp black border on underwings.
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BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
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PopulationFairly common
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MigrationSome migrate
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Weight17.6
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