Red-tailed Hawk

• GeneralIts scream is the one the cinema dubs over the cry of almost any bird of prey, eagles included.
• Its scream is the sound of the bald eagle in films: the Hollywood studios decided that the bald eagle's real call, a weak, high-pitched chirp, was not imposing enough, and ever since they have dubbed eagles with this hawk's cry.
• A bird called Pale Male nested for more than two decades on the ledge of a building on Fifth Avenue in New York, opposite Central Park, and became a local celebrity.
• It perches in plain view on motorway posts and lamp posts because the verge, with its strip of grass and its rodents, works as an unbroken hunting corridor.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Grassland, open woodland, deserts, motorways and city edges throughout North America

Sexual maturity

2 years

Gestation / incubation

31 days

Litter / clutch size

3

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/