Red-tailed hawks are known for their brick-colored tails, but there are more than a dozen subspecies of various colorations, and not all of them have this characteristic. These birds of prey are ...

Their large, deep eyes provide excellent vision and are typically dark-colored. In the case of a juvenile red-tailed hawk, birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman note that the eyes are yellow.

How to identify: Red-tailed hawks are large hawks with typical buteo proportions: very broad, rounded wings and a short, ... Habitat: The red-tailed hawk is a bird of open country.

First, it shares with the ferruginous hawk of the north central plains the honor of being the largest of American buteos, reaching 2 feet in length with a wingspan up to 5 feet.

Robin Mathews, volunteer from ARK Association to Rescue Kritters releases the male red-tailed hawk from its cage after a month of rehabilitation for an injured wing on the campus of Northwood ...

The large red-tailed hawk flies off to a nearby tree, then down to a squirrel on the ground, which escapes. The squirrels are now screeching warnings to one another.

The red-tailed hawk is one of the largest birds you’ll see in North America, yet even the biggest females weigh in at only about 3 pounds. A similar-sized small dog might weigh 10 times that ...

Professor James Hewlett with a juvenile male red-tailed hawk prior to ... BBRR scientists recorded over 140,000 hawks as they migrated north to their breeding grounds — the largest migration ...

A young red-tailed hawk was spotted in Somerville on Tuesday carrying a dead squirrel. Woodbridge begins $25 million makeover of century-old school. Here's what's planned ...