Red-tailed Hawk

RED-TAILED HAWK

Buteo-jamaicensis 19-25"

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Red-tailed Hawks are large broad-winged and dark-headed. They range from woodlands to deserts. Their diets generally consist of rodents and rabbits, although they do also feed on birds, (such as this one is doing) snakes and reptiles.

My father and I watched for probably half-an-hour as this redtailed plucked and ate a red-winged blackbird. Other red-winged blackbird's tried to attack the hawk as it ate but they didn't seem to bother it much. This was taken at Wachusett Meadow.