![red tailed hawk](images/img14.jpg) | Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo Jamaicensis
Identification Tips:
- Length: 18 inches Wingspan: 48 inches
- Sexes similar - Short, dark, hooked beak
- Large, broad-winged, broad-tailed hawk
- Dark patagial mark on under wing, present on all ages and
races, is unique
- Blocky translucent area in outer primaries
- Flies with a dihedral
Adult:
- Brown head, nape, back, and upper wings
- White chin, throat, breast, and belly
- Dark belly band formed by vertical streaks in band across belly
- White under wings have dark carpal bar on leading edge, dark
outer primary tips and a dark trailing edge and are otherwise
pale with dark bars on the flight feathers on all but the
outermost primaries
- Tail appears brick red above and pink below
- Breast and back pattern vary with geography, with some birds
being intermediate between light and dark morphs
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