How to Use red-tailed hawk in a Sentence

red-tailed hawk

noun

• The trail, which is named for the O’odham word for red-tailed hawk, progresses in three distinct episodes.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2022
• If Pale Male did live past 30, his life was one of the longest ever recorded for a red-tailed hawk.
  — Karen Matthews, Fortune, 17 May 2023
• On this New Year’s Day, the present was filled with a cloudless sky and a beautiful red-tailed hawk floating overhead.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022
• Too, this little pea-less whistle does a damn fine job with the bobwhite quail, as well as the aforementioned red-tailed hawk.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• Watch for raptors like the Peregrine falcon, bald eagle, red-tailed hawk and those goshawks that Edge fought so hard to protect.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
• The red-tailed hawk, whose X-ray had revealed a dozen buckshots, was also healing, although its wing would need more time.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2021
• Alan can tell a red-tailed hawk from a sharp-shinned one, having been dragged as a child every spring to the southern shore of Lake Ontario to watch raptors migrate north.
  — Elaine Chen, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• During construction, the project was temporarily stalled when crews found a red-tailed hawk nest on top of a light pole, according to the city.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2020
• And an even more amazing capture by this red-tailed hawk getting ready to eat an invasive iguana.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• Your photos show that the large bird perched on a sign downtown is a red-tailed hawk, a raptor that's not quite as large as an eagle, but definitely a Big Boy hawk.
  — Val Cunningham Contributing Writer, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• His interests turned to falconry and keeping birds of prey: a red-tailed hawk, a Cooper’s hawk, an American kestrel.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
• It was likely initially brought as prey for the eaglet already in the nest, but the eagles began to raise it as their own young, with a second red-tailed hawk joining the nest later.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• Bald eagle, American goldfinch, Cooper's hawk, red-tailed hawk, and eastern bluebird are a few of the species expected to be present in the sanctuary.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 July 2022
• Lilly found that the squirrels became more vigilant after hearing the cry of the red-tail hawk—freezing, fleeing, or looking up.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2019
• When eagles were first featured in sound motion pictures, editors dubbed in the call of a red-tailed hawk to avoid unsettling viewers, something like an avian Singin’ in the Rain.
  — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2022
• After the heavy rains, Southern California wildlife experts are already noticing more of certain species, such as the kangaroo rat and red-tailed hawk.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• Another blogger suggested that sleepless neighbors blast the sound of a red-tailed hawk through amplified speakers.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2021
• Bird-watching walks occur monthly, providing even newbie birders with the opportunity to spy a red-tailed hawk or a belted kingfisher.
  — Jeanine Barone, The Know, 23 Feb. 2020
• State conservation police are investigating the wounding of a red-tailed hawk, which was discovered impaled with an arrow in Oxford.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 19 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024