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Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

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If you see a large raptor circling about overhead, chances are it's Red-Tailed Hawk. Most are chocolate brown on top to an off-white below, with flecks of brown streaks of the chest. Tail is a rusty orange.  Meals usually consist of small mammals (squirrels, mice, rabbits) and occasionally other smaller birds. Red-Tailed Hawk couples will stay together until one dies.

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