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Buteo lineatus
Red-shouldered Hawks are medium-sized, with broad, rounded wings and medium-length tails that they fan out when soaring. In flight, they often glide or soar with their wingtips pushed slightly forward, imparting a distinctive, “reaching” posture. Adults are colorful hawks with dark-and-white checkered wings and warm reddish barring on the breast. The tail is black with narrow white bands. Immatures are brown above and white below streaked with brown. All ages show narrow, pale crescents near the wingtips in flight.
City park with large trees, lake, and open areas.
You could hear this hawk calling from somewhere in the thick trees to one side of the park. Then it flew out of the heavy growth and landed in this tree near the parking lot. It sat there a few minutes, then flew back into the trees in another area of the park.
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