RED-TAILED HAWK


Meaning of RED-TAILED HAWK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈred-ˌtāld- ]

noun

Date: 1805

: 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 — called also redtail

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