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Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

August 23, 2023

[ID: Six photographs, in two sets of three.

The first three show a red-shouldered hawk, perched on top of a short concrete wall, with a building behind it in the distance. The hawk has brown feathers on its back and wings that are streaked with white, and a cream belly that is spotted with brown. There are stripes on its tail, and visible at the very tips of its wings.

The next three show an american crow, standing in some grass, holding a round, brown object in its mouth. It has solid black feathers that are slightly iridescent blue, and a grey beak. The second is zoomed in more, and the crow is now looking downward, and slightly blurred as it moves. In the third picture, it is no longer holding the object, and is instead looking off to the side with its beak closed.

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The red-shouldered hawk and one of the crows it decided to try and eat. It missed. And I have no idea what it was even thinking, considering there were five crows, all of whom are the same size as it is.

I don’t know what the crow was trying to eat. they were picking through trash near the grocery store, so it could pretty much be anything.

Both of these have been added to iNaturalist:

Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus

Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus