Highly variable plumage and a "majestic cry" that Hollywood has fallen in love with are several reasons that this widespread species is misidentified Red-tail hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, sometimes known ...

Harlan's red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis harlani (synonyms, Buteo harlani and Buteo borealis harlani; protonym, Falco Harlani), also known as Harlans hawk, photographed at Anahuac National Wildlife ...

I was leaving the Saco River Salmon Club hatchery late one afternoon last week — just in time to watch a Red-tailed hawk leave its perch and glide away on a northeast wind current. The setting sun ...

A common hawk of wet deciduous woodlands, they are the noisiest of the buteos, especially during spring courtship. A perch-hunter of the forest understory, it feeds on frogs, snakes, lizards, and ...