“Red-Tailed”

The following 2 entries include the term Red-Tailed.

red-tailed hawk

noun

: a widely distributed chiefly rodent-eating New World hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) that is usually mottled dusky above and white streaked dusky and tinged with buff below and has a rather short typically reddish tail

red-tailed tropic bird

noun

: a tropic bird (Phaëton rubricauda)


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