Red-Tailed Hawks

The Red-Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a large bird with rounded wings and a short wide tail. It is brown above and pale below. The Red-Tailed Hawk has excellent vision and can see in color (which is a structural adaptation). It has strong, sharp talons for ripping apart their prey (which is a functional adaptation). It also has a hooked beak for pulling out the meat from its prey (which is a functional adaptation).The Red-Tailed Hawk’s Habitat is tropical beaches and marshes. It’s prey is Rabbits or Squirrels, and it’s Predators are Raccoons, Great Horned Owls, and Red Foxes. The Red-Tailed Hawk has a bilateral symmetry, also it is a heterotroph (animal) and endothermic (warm-blooded). The Order of Classification for the Red-Tailed Hawk is…

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Falconiformes

Family: Accipitridae

Genus: Buteo

Species: jamaicensis

and lastly an interesting fact about The Red-Tailed Hawk is Red-Tailed Hawk have a loud descending call sounding like “keeeep.”