Overview
The red-tailed hawk is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska & northern Canada to as far south as Panama & the West Indies. It is one of the most common members within the genus of Buteo in North America or worldwide.
Habitat: Open country, woodlands, prairie groves, mountains, plains, roadsides. Found in any kind of terrain that provides some open land for hunting & some high perches. Habitats may include everything from woodland with scattered clearings to open grassland or desert with a few trees or utility poles.
Diet/Prey: Mammals commonly make up a large part of their diet, & include everything from small mice to rabbits & hares. They will also take medium-size birds & reptiles such as lizards & snakes.
Predators: Adult red-tailed hawks have few predators, great horned owls & crows prey on red-tailed hawk eggs & nestlings. Owls compete with the red-tailed hawks for nest site ,these birds are known to kill the young & destroy the eggs of the other in an attempt at taking a nest site.
Subspecies: fiftheen subspecies
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