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Red Tailed Hawk
The red tailed hawk is a "Buteo", a family of mainly large, robust, rodent eating hawks, and is related to other members of this group. Ohers are the red shouldered hawk, broad winged hawk, Swainson's hawk, rough legged hawk, ferruginous hawk, Short tailed hawk, Harris' hawk.
Most hawks will scavenge dead animals, but are primarily predators.
They fly.
a Red-Tailed Hawk is a birds-of-prey
Yes, the red-tailed hawk is a secondary consumer. This is because the red-tailed hawk eats the small mammals and birds.
Yes, a Red-Tailed Hawk can live in the desert.
Only it's tail.
A red tailed hawk has a back bone making it a vertebrate.
Because the tails of typical adults are red orange in color. But two races, the Krider's red tailed hawk, and the Harlan's red tailed hawk, have pale buff tails with faint bars.
The red tailed is a Buteo hawk, subfamily Buteoninae. Scientific name is Buteo Jamaicensis.
No, a Red-tailed Hawk does not eat Mountain Lions. Red-tailed Hawks primarily hunt small to medium-sized mammals, birds, and reptiles, while Mountain Lions are large predators and not typical prey for birds of prey. The size difference and hunting behavior of these two species make predation by a Red-tailed Hawk on a Mountain Lion highly unlikely.