How to Use red-tailed hawk in a Sentence
red-tailed hawk
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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
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