Bird 4



The Red-Tailed Hawk is about 19-23 inches long, it weighs about 2.5 pounds , and has a wingspan of 4 to 4.5 feet. The feathers varies a bit, but is generally brown to gray brown with pale markings, and with a white chest. The tail feathers are red-brown and square-cut.  It eats rodents (like mice, muskrats, and squirrels), opossums, moles, weasels. The other animals are reptiles (like snakes), and amphibians, and other birds (like pigeons, quail, crows, ducks, and woodpeckers). The young are called chicks. This bird is hunted by a falconer.