Thursday, November 19, 2015

i hope you learned about Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk  
Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis. The Red-tailed hawk are very broad, they have rounded wings and short wide tail. Sometime the large females might fool you and you are going to think that you are looking at an eagle.The Domain is Eukaryote and the kingdom is Animalia. Phylum is Chordata and the class is Repli. Order is Saurischia and the family is Accipitridae. Genus is Buteo and species is Jamaicensis. Red-tailed Hawk is a bird of an open country you can find it in fields or tree standing alone or along the edges of the fields. A fun fact about the Red-tailed Hawk is that the red fox, golden eagle and Racoons are all predators of the Red-tailed Hawk. The Red-tailed Hawk has Bilateral symmetry which means that if we cut the Red-tailed Hawk into two sides it would give the same shape. A structural adaptation is that it has keen eyesight that can make them see their predators from very far away.  Another structural adaptation is that there wingspan could weight up to four pounds. The last adaptation is that they like to go to winter places because it make them warm. The predators of the Red-tailed Hawk are foxes and raccoons. Also one of its preys is mice. Red-tailed Hawk are also heterotroph which means they eat other meats or plants. They are also endothermic which means they are warm blooded. I hope you learned about Red-tailed Hawk!!

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