Red - Tailed Hawk
Jaden Wesley period 9 May 16,2016
Habitat
Movement
Body covering
Wholly dark chocolate underparts, upperparts and underwing coverts with no apparent patagial mark
- Pale underside to primaries and secondaries like light morph birds being pale with dark tips and dark bars on the flight feathers
- Tail appears brick red above and pink below (like light morph adult)
- Breast and back pattern vary with geography, with some birds being intermediate between light and dark morphs (Webpath Experss)
Diet
Small rodents such as voles, squirrels, mice, chipmunks; other
small mammals, esp. cottontail rabbits, shrews, and moles; amphibians, reptiles; birds, esp. red-winged blackbirds; insects; carrion. (Webpath Experss)
Reprouduction
Females lay from one to seven eggs each breeding season. Most species
lay their eggs for about 30 to 45 days before they hatch. (world book online)