Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis - Buse à queue rousse

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Accipitriformes

  • Family
    :

    Accipitridés

  • Genus
    :

    Buteo

  • Species
    :

    jamaicensis

Descriptor

Gmelin, JF, 1788

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 45 à 65 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 114 à 133 cm.
  • Weight
    : 690 à 1460 g
Longevity

22 years

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Buse à queue rousse
First year
Buse à queue rousse
adult

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a species of bird in the Accipitridae family.

Subspecific information 12 subspecies

  • Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis (Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, n Lesser Antilles)
  • Buteo jamaicensis alascensis (se Alaska, sw Canada)
  • Buteo jamaicensis harlani (c Alaska, nw Canada)
  • Buteo jamaicensis calurus (w North America, Socorro Is.)
  • Buteo jamaicensis borealis (e North America)
  • Buteo jamaicensis suttoni (s Baja California. Mexico.)
  • Buteo jamaicensis fuertesi (sw USA, n Mexico)
  • Buteo jamaicensis fumosus (Tres Marias Is.. off wc Mexico.)
  • Buteo jamaicensis hadropus (c Mexico)
  • Buteo jamaicensis kemsiesi (s Mexico to Nicaragua)
  • Buteo jamaicensis costaricensis (Costa Rica, w Panama)
  • Buteo jamaicensis umbrinus (Florida. USA. , Bahamas, Cuba)

Foreign names

  • Buse à queue rousse,
  • Busardo colirrojo,
  • bútio-de-rabo-vermelho,
  • Rotschwanzbussard,
  • rőtfarkú ölyv,
  • Roodstaartbuizerd,
  • Poiana codarossa,
  • rödstjärtad vråk,
  • Rødhalevåk,
  • myšiak hrdzavochvostý,
  • káně rudochvostá,
  • Rødhalet Våge,
  • amerikanhiirihaukka,
  • aligot cua-roig,
  • myszołów rdzawosterny,
  • rudastes klijāns,
  • Краснохвостый сарыч,
  • アカオノスリ,
  • 红尾鵟,
  • 紅尾鵟,

Voice song and cries

Buse à queue rousse
First year

Habitat

Forest : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane ; Shrubland : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude ; Grassland : Temperate ; Desert : Temperate ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Pastureland, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

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