🐾 Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis · wildlife atlas entry

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The red-tailed hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis ) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. It is one of the most common members within the genus of Buteo in North America or worldwide. The red-tailed hawk is one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk", though it rarely preys on standard-sized... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Red-tailed Hawk — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Craig K. Hunt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Craig K. Hunt · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Buteo jamaicensis
Rank	species
Community observations	366,302 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Accipitriformes › family Accipitridae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Red-tailed Hawk photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Del Valle Regional Park, Livermore, CA, US
(c) Irina Mitine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Red-tailed Hawk photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Riverwalk Trail, Puyallup, WA, US
(c) georgede, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Red-tailed Hawk photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-10 · Whatcom County, WA, USA
(c) Timothy McNitt, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Red-tailed Hawk photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2024-01-08 · Dynes Rd, Burlington, ON, CA
(c) Vernon Josh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Red-tailed Hawk photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · St. Hwy 65 at Bingham Creek, Jackson County, AL, USA
(c) Jeff Garner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Red-tailed Hawk photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-18 · Pale Rock Terr, Colorado Springs, CO, US
(c) theauxdore, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Red-tailed Hawk photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Prescott, AZ, USA
(c) John Fausett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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