Species guide
Red-tailed hawk
HarmlessButeo jamaicensis
How to recognise it
A large, broad-winged hawk, brown above and pale below with a dark belly band. Adults show the namesake brick-red tail. Often seen perched along roadsides or soaring.
Is it dangerous?
Harmless to people — a raptor that hunts rodents and other small prey.
Recorded 12,452,183 times in the wild worldwide.
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