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.
what is the dangers to the red tail hawk
Only it's tail.
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.
from head to tail its about 38-47 cm
No, all hawks are birds. If they were a mammal they would have fur and give birth to live young.
mainly humans but golden eagles have been known to prey on adult red tailed hawks
A large, robust buteo hawk, mainly brown and with the distinctive red orange tail.
They fly.
No. The red tail is the most common large raptor in North America.
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.
Red tailed hawks are quite capable of killing and consuming small dogs.