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A juvenile red-tailed hawk — Buteo jamaicensis eating its prey (California meadow vole — Microtus californicus
Credit: Steve Jurvetson

The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a medium-sized bird of prey. It breeds almost throughout North America from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common buteos in North America.

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