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

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 18-10-2009
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