Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
(aka Red-tailed Buzzard)

Red-tailed Hawk, Zapata Swamp, Cuba, February 2005 - click on image for a larger view

Palpite, Zapata Swamp, Cuba
February 2005

The Red-tailed Hawk is distributed throughout most of North America and into Central America and the Caribbean. The sub-species found on Cuba is B. j. solitudinis.

It is found in forest and wooded swamp such as is found in the Zapata swamp. It feeds on birds, lizards, rodents and insects.

Adults have a rufous tail. Its long broad wings show a dark bar along the leading edge and a dark patch at the wrist.

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