red-tailed

And to make it more confusing, the English use different words than we do; for instance, their buzzards aren’t our vultures, but what we would call our red-tailed and ferruginous hawks.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

If these were the old residents they must have been disappointed as the cliff was alive with falcons and eagles and red-tailed hawks.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

There were so many jealous and territorial birds around—within half a mile two pairs of goldens, red-tailed hawks, one pair of peregrine falcons, and a little farther west the raven family and the fierce prairie falcons—that any one of them might have seen the osprey as an interloper.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

If these were the old residents they must have been disappointed as the cliff was alive with falcons and eagles and red-tailed hawks.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The eagles fought and chased red-tailed hawks away from the nest day after day.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The eagles fought and chased red-tailed hawks away from the nest day after day.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, the falcon circled or chose high perches suitable for diving attacks.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

There were so many jealous and territorial birds around—within half a mile two pairs of goldens, red-tailed hawks, one pair of peregrine falcons, and a little farther west the raven family and the fierce prairie falcons—that any one of them might have seen the osprey as an interloper.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

But I suspected there were young in the nest the first week in April, mostly because I saw one of the bald eagles vigorously chasing a red-tailed hawk nearby.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Before I pulled the trigger, a red-tailed hawk swooped down, snatching my kill right out from under me.

Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011