Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

(L18" WS 48" Wt 2.4 lb)

Attack with a slow, controlled
swoop with legs outstretched
...unlike the dive of a falcon

Andrew Spencer,
XC14852

Morton Arboretum

Lisle, IL

07May2007

juvenile

I am but mad north-north-west:
when the wind is southerly I know
a hawk from a handsaw.

   (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark)