The_Red-Tailed_Hawk

The Red-Tailed Hawk The red-tailed hawk or buteo jamaicensis lives in North and Central America and the West Indies. Their haibitats are desert, forest, and mountians. They can live in a lot of different areas. They have a variety of prey. They eat rodents, rabbits, and other small mammals. They also eat snakes, lizards, birds, and large insects. When they hunt they either fly or stay on an exposed branch like a dead tree to swoop down on their praey. They help farmers by eating rats and mice. Their charactersics are bright chesnut colored tails that you can see while they fly. Their throat and undersides are white, usually with a dark "bellyband". They have a dark streak on their sides. The females are significantly larger than the male in every case. They have a down-curved beak. The have widely spaced toes and sharp, ling, red-tailed, hawks, feet, white, prey, pale, live, help, four, fly, eat, desert, dark, brown, arizona, wingspan, widely, while, western, west, weeks, variety, undersides, twigs, twenty-six, twenty-eight, trees, tree, toes, throat, thirty-two, themselves, tend, tails, tail