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Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis
34.01, -84.58
Field Notes
Description:
Most Red-tailed Hawks are rich brown above and pale below, with a streaked belly and, on the wing underside, a dark bar between shoulder and wrist. The tail is usually pale below and cinnamon-red above, though in young birds it’s brown and banded.
Habitat:
The Red-tailed Hawk is a bird of open country. Look for it along fields and perched on telephones poles, fence posts, or trees standing alone or along edges of fields.
Notes:
Spotted near the parking lot for an office building complex in Kennesaw, GA
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJune 23, 2014
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