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	Red-shouldered Hawk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Red-shouldered Hawk, Buteo lineatus, is a medium-sized hawk.
		The red "shoulder" is visible when the bird is perched.
		Western birds may appear more red; Florida birds are generally paler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red-shouldered_Hawk (186 words)

	The Red-shouldered Hawk and Spring Woodpecker Survey
		The Red-shouldered Hawk is now a rare breeding bird in Ontario, and is classified as a species of Special Concern by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) and Vulnerable in Ontario by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR).
		The dependence of Red-shouldered Hawks on large, mature forests raised the concern that timber management practices may be negatively affecting the hawks.
		Hawks and woodpeckers in general are not well-surveyed on other volunteer bird surveys (such as the Breeding Bird Survey) because of their early breeding season and secretive nature.
	www.bsc-eoc.org /rsha.html (453 words)

	Red-Shouldered Hawk
		Red-shouldered hawks are often heard before they are seen, but be careful because their cries are sometimes imitated by blue jays.
		Red-shouldered hawks are fairly common birds of prey.
		Southern red-shouldered hawks are often lighter than those found up north.
	www.calusanature.com /Animal%20Facts/Red-Shouldered%20Hawk.htm (558 words)

	ADW: Buteo lineatus: Information
		Incubating red-shouldered hawk adults, nestlings and eggs are vulnerable to predation by great-horned owls and raccoons.
		Populations of red-shouldered hawks in the eastern U.S. and California are resident.
		Red-shouldered hawks prey on rodents that are agricultural pests.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Buteo_lineatus.html (1476 words)

	Adopt-a-Bird - Red-shouldered Hawk
		Identification: The Red-shouldered Hawk is a long-legged, long-tailed, slender buteo, 18-24 inches in length with a wingspread of 33-34 inches.
		Range & Habitat: Red-shouldered Hawks are found as far north as Manitoba and New Brunswick, and south to the Gulf Coast.
		Reproduction: Red-shouldered Hawks nest in a deciduous or coniferous tree, usually 20-60 feet above the ground.
	www.adoptabird.org /rsh.html (266 words)

	Red-shouldered-hawk
		Red-shouldered hawks are large (16-24 inches body length) and have a black-and-white banded tail.
		This red-shouldered hawk is puffed out against the cold — it was only in the high 30s (Fahrenheit) in the Gray Lodge Preserve when we observed him.
		This shot was taken with a Nikkor 80-200 mm zoom telephoto with a Tamron 2x extender in the 400mm position in late afternoon in March.
	www.astronomy-images.com /day-images/California/Birds/red-shouldered-hawk.htm (127 words)

	Nearctica - Natural History - Birds of Eastern North America - Accipitridae - Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
		Habitat: The Red-shouldered Hawk is found in deciduous forest, particularly near rivers, lakes, and ponds.
		Behavior: The Red-shouldered Hawk is one of the most common hawk species in the east.
		The immature Red-tailed Hawk is smaller, with a narrower tail, and the breast is only weakly, if at all, streaked.
	www.nearctica.com /birds/hawks/Blinea.htm (252 words)

	hawk on Encyclopedia.com
		The name hawk is applied also to many falcons and the totally unrelated nighthawk (a goatsucker), certain members of the gull and jaeger families, and the hawk swallow, a European swift.
		Except for the harriers, or marsh hawks (owl-faced birds of open land and marshes), which are ground nesters, hawks build their nests of sticks and twigs in trees.
		Typical of the hunting hawks, or accipiters, is the goshawk found in northern temperate regions, which feeds on small mammals and on other birds, riding its prey to the ground.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h1/hawk.asp (609 words)

	Carolina Raptor Center - Raptor Species: Red-shouldered Hawk
		Red-shouldered hawks build their nests lower than the red-tailed hawks, at about half way up the tree.
		Red-shouldered hawks are more difficult to spot perched lower in trees; in winter they perch in the open more often.
		Red-shouldered hawks are quite vocal (blue jays frequently mimic their call), especially during spring courtship.
	www.carolinaraptorcenter.org /rs_hawk.php (370 words)

	The Canadian Peregrine Foundation -- Raptor Identification Gallery
		The red-shouldered hawk is a sensitive forest species in that it nests in large tracts of mature forest with home ranges in the order of 250 hectares per breeding pair.
		In southern Ontario, red-shouldered hawks are back on nesting grounds by mid-March and are often seen performing flight displays, rising in wide spirals and then diving over the forest while calling vigorously with their incessant repeated ‘keeyr’ call, reminiscent of a ring-billed gull.
		The habitat niche of the red-shouldered hawk is large deciduous or mixed forests, specifically bottomland forests (swamps, floodplains) or upland forests with nearby wetlands or streams.
	www.peregrine-foundation.ca /raptors/Redshouldered.html (1096 words)

	Red-shouldered Hawk
		Red-shouldered Hawks feed on small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and insects.
		MEASUREMENTS: The Red-shouldered Hawk has a body length of 15 - 19 inches, a wingspan of 3 - 3 1/2 feet, and weighs 1 - 2 pounds.
		Buteo hawks are referred to as buzzards in other parts of the world.
	www.peregrinefund.org /Explore_Raptors/hawks/redshldr.html (269 words)

	www.redshoulders.html
		In the Southeast, the Red-shouldered Hawk is "most prevelant in...woodlands and in damp deciduous growths around ponds and lakes." (Scholz 148).
		The Red-shouldered Hawk is a permenant resident in most of it's Eastern range (Dunne-Wind 83).
		The Red-shouldered Hawk's wings are often described as "plank-like": "long, narrow, and clean-edged" with a slotting of the primaries.
	www.discoverlife.org /nh/tx/Vertebrata/Aves/Accipitridae/Buteo/lineatus (494 words)

	All About Birds
		A common forest-dwelling hawk of the East and California, the Red-shouldered Hawk favors woodlands near water.
		While a Red-shouldered Hawk was observed chasing a Great Horned Owl, its mate took a young owl out of its nest and ate it.
		By the time they are five days old, nestling Red-shouldered Hawks can shoot their feces over the edge of their nest.
	birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Red-shouldered_Hawk_dtl.html (481 words)

	* Red-shouldered Hawk - (Animals): Definition
		The Red-tailed Hawk may be confused with the Red-shouldered Hawk, which is smaller (48 cm, or19 in, long) and which has a reddish breast and a barred tail...
		The red-shouldered hawk B. lineatus and red-tailed hawk B. jamaicensis occur in North America...
		Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a long winged, long tailed hawk.
	en.mimi.hu /animals/redshouldered_hawk.html (267 words)

	Birds - Red Shouldered Hawk
		culture has prepared a special bulletin on the hawks and owls for their enlightenment, and the two so-called " hen hawks" have proved to be among the most valuable allies the farmer has.
		Serenely the hawk pursues its way, ignoring the impudence of the small kingbird in pursuit and the indignities of the crow that may not reach the dizzy heights toward which it soars in wide spirals.
		Swainson's Hawk or Buzzard (Buteo Swainsoni), an infrequent visitor east of the Mississippi, is nevertheless the commonest of all its tribe in some sections of the West.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles21/birds-253.shtml (744 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Red-shouldered Hawk
		A red-shouldered hawk was at Bybee Lake in North Portland.
		A black phoebe and a red-shouldered hawk were at Barnes Springs east of Frenchglen, and a bright yellow-throated warbler was at Frenchglen.
		A red-shouldered hawk found in a Vista neighborhood and a Cooper's Hawk found in the Clairemont area of San Diego bring the total number of birds that have...
	conservation.mongabay.com /files/Red-shouldered_Hawk.htm (947 words)

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		The Red Shouldered Hawk is another important raptor which is declining and which their viability is in question which may be adversely affected by the logging.
		ARed Shouldered Hawk Nests,@ by Dijak et al, published in The Wilson=s Bulletin in 1990, they found that the mean canopy closure of successful nesting sites was 90%, and the mean canopy height was 22.3 meters.
		Failure to maintain uncut buffer zones around traditional Red-shouldered Hawk nest sites may result in the local extirpation of this species." He goes on to find that ARed-tailed Hawk incursions were associated with tree densities and crown diameters, suggesting that these incursions were a response to selective logging in woodlots...
	www.northwoodswild.org /pages/arc_apl_choate.htm (8413 words)

	Species at risk - Red-shouldered Hawk
		The Red-shouldered Hawk was the most common diurnal (active in daytime) raptor to breed in the deciduous forests of eastern North America before dramatic declines in the late 1950s through 1970.
		The species is often confused with stockier and larger Red-tailed Hawk, though that species has a solid reddish tail in place of the Red-shouldered Hawk's barred black and white tail.
		The hawk is a large raptor, 40 to 61 cm in length with a 1 m wing span.
	www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca /search/speciesDetails_e.cfm?SpeciesID=58 (724 words)

	Red-shouldered Hawk Fact Sheet
		From courtship to the start of incubation red-shouldered hawks scream a loud "kee-yar;" during the remainder of the year they are predominantly silent.
		The red-shouldered hawk is a slim, narrow-winged, long-tailed buteo.
		This hawk was once the most common large hawk of central and western New York.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/rshafs.html (593 words)

	Red-shouldered Hawk
		She appeared to simply be a receptionist.) She concluded that the hawk seemed to have a fractured wing and would most likely be put down.
		What a shame such a beautiful hawk had to be injured by, and then die by, human hands.
		She said it was doubtful that the vet would even bother to x-ray the bird because of where the break in the wing was located (humerus).
	www.mothersea.com /birds/redshouldered.html (475 words)

	Birds and All Nature: The Red-shouldered Hawk
		The Red-shouldered Hawk is one of the finest specimens of these birds, as well as one of the most useful.
		The flight of the Red-shouldered Hawk is slow, but steady and strong with a regular beat of the wings.
		According to Davie, to describe all the shades of reds and browns which comprise the variation would be an almost endless task, and a large series like this must be seen in order to appreciate how much the eggs of this species vary.
	www.birdnature.com /sep1898/hawk.html (515 words)

	On the Wing Again: Information
		The Red Shouldered Hawk is a bird of the wet lands, prefering to live along stream beds and in marshes, bogs, flood planes, and river bottoms in arid areas.
		Being a raptor of the wet lands the Red Shouldered Hawk feeds mostly on reptiles, anphibians, and crustaceans.
		The Red Shouldered Hawk's population in the eastern part of its range can be seen on a decline due to loss of habitat.
	www.onthewingagain.org /bird22.html (244 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Buteo lineatus
		The Red-shouldered Hawk is widespread in the eastern United States and less common in the western United States.
		The Red-shouldered Hawk is rarely seen far from wetlands or water.
		An adult Red-tailed Hawk can be distinguished by the rusty red color of the upper side of its tail, a mottled barring of dark on its belly, and the lack of reddish shoulder patches.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/falconiformes/blineatus.html (472 words)

	Red-shouldered Hawk
		Red-shouldered hawks catch their food by perching on a high branch and searching with their keen eyesight.
		Most red-shouldered hawks are reddish brown or reddish-black in color.
		By the second week, the young hawk shows remarkable changes and when they are a month old they are ready to leave the nest.
	www.kaweahoaks.com /html/hawk_rshld.html (133 words)

	rs_hawk.html
		Red-shouldered Hawk has become a "regular" vagrant to Idaho, recently with three reported last Fall and one this Fall (three birds at Lucky Peak and one at American Falls), but, to my knowledge, in no case has there been a notation or documentation as to subspecies.
		Last Wednesday (23 December, 2004) Cliff and Lisa Weisse discovered a Red-shouldered Hawk approximately 3.1 miles east on ID 78 from its intersection with ID 45, alongside the Snake River in riparian habitat with some mature Cottonwoods on both sides of the river.
		In sub-definitive plumage or immature plumage elegans is more similar to the adult birds of its race, with their underparts more barred than streaked, the crescent shape of underwing paler rufous, and the tail a darker brown, with whitish pale bands.
	www.idahobirds.net /identification/rs_hawk.html (534 words)

	Red-shouldered Hawk
		The first year I went to the beach and heard the resident red-shouldered hawk, I thought it was a lonely, poignant sound.
		In further research, I have found that especially in coastal California, this hawk is expanding its range from heavily-forested areas to small patches of trees, even clumps of eucalyptus in populated areas.
		The hawks add coniferous needles when the eggs are laid (is this some type of decoration, I wonder humorously?).
	www.sherrysknowledgequest.com /hawk.htm (576 words)

	Red-shouldered Hawk
		Red-shouldered Hawk: The adult Broad-winged Hawk is similarly patterned but lacks red shoulders, lacks pale translucent crescents, has black and white bands on tail of even width and a crisp black border to under wing.
		Red-shouldered Hawk: This bird resides in the eastern woodlands and the area west of the Rocky Mountains in the United States.
		● Similar species: Red-shouldered Hawk: The adult Broad-winged Hawk is similarly patterned but lacks red shoulders, lacks pale translucent crescents, has black and white bands on tail of even width and a crisp black border to under wing.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/40/target.aspx (813 words)

	The Modern Apprentice - The Red-Shouldered Hawk
		The Red-Shouldered Hawk has patches of red on the wrists giving the appearance of red shoulders and, hence, the name.
		When nesting and caring for chicks, the Red Shouldered Hawk is known for its aggression towards intruders.
		Typical quarry caught with the Red-Shouldered Hawk are small rodents and rabbits.
	www.themodernapprentice.com /redshouldered.htm (190 words)

	Animal Information
		The red-shouldered hawk, also called the hen hawk, chicken hawk, and winter hawk, is the most commonly seen hawk throughout the state, including the Keys.
		Red-shouldered hawks in southern Florida are slightly smaller and paler in color than those in northern Florida.
		Often seen in cypress swamps bordering grassy open woods, red-shouldered hawks feed primarily on rodents and other small mammals, as well as snakes, frogs, crayfish, lizards, and insects.
	webworld.freac.fsu.edu /eco/individual.php?name=Buteo+lineatus&... (114 words)

	Hilton Pond This Week June 15-21, 2000 (Red-shouldered Hawk)
		Hawk the size of red-shouldereds require special lock-on bands; these include two flanges that fold together to keep the hawks from prying the bands open with their powerful beaks.
		The Red-shouldered Hawk in these photos was fairly docile and--like most buteos--never attempted to use its sharply hooked beak as a weapon; however, the bander never let go of those powerful legs, lest the talons provide a permanent memento of the day's hawk-banding encounter.
		Unlike our breeding Broad-winged Hawks that overwinter in South America, it's likely that some Hilton Pond red-shouldereds are year-round residents, while others that are non-breeders may float in and out of the area during summer.
	www.hiltonpond.org /ThisWeek000615.html (724 words)

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