Animals / Bird

Red-tailed hawk

Buteo jamaicensis · Accipitridae

The red-tailed hawk is a bird of prey and one of the most common hawks in North America. In the United States, it is one of three species colloquially known as the "chickenhawk". The red-tailed hawk breeds throughout most of the continent, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies.

Where the Red-tailed hawk lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in California, Texas, Ontario, Arizona, Massachusetts and Illinois.

See the Red-tailed hawk’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 12,467,366 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.