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How to identify a red-tailed hawk

Which hawk are you seeing? Here's how to tell if your bird is an adult or juvenile red-tailed hawk. Learn about their sounds, range and more.
I have a friend who measures outings in red-tailed hawks. “It was a five-hawk drive,” she’ll exclaim after visiting a bucolic setting. That’s an easy image to conjure: fierce hawks perched high on ...
While several hawk species migrate, the red-tailed hawk stays around all year and is the most common one seen. They prefer to ...