Red-tailed Hawk

  

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Red-tailed Hawk

Definition: Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Noun

1. Dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym: Red-tailed Hawk

Synonym: redtail (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Red-tailed Hawk

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Red-tailed Hawk
Scientific Classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Buteo
Species:jamaicensis
Binomial name
Buteo jamaicensis

The Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, is a large hawk.

Adults have a dark mark on the underwing, between the body and the wrist (the patagium). They have broad wings; some but not all colour variations have a red tail and a dark band across the belly. Eastern birds have a dark red tail; there are two main colour variations:

Other variations are: Their breeding habitat is open country with high perches across most of North America. They build a stick nest in a large tree, cactus or on a cliff edge; they may also nest on man-made structures.

In most of the United States, Red-tailed Hawks are permanent residents. Northern birds migrate further south.

These birds wait on a high perch and swoop down on prey; they may also patrol open areas. They mainly eat small mammals, birds and reptiles.

In flight, these birds soar with wings in a slight dihedral, flapping as little as possible.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Red-tailed Hawk."

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Crosswords: Red-tailed Hawk

English words defined with "red-tailed hawk": hen hawk. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Red-tailed Hawk

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Books

  • A Red-Tailed Hawk Named Bucket (reference)

  • A Wing in the Door: Life With a Red-Tailed Hawk (The World As Home Series) (reference)

  • Carving and Painting a Red-Tailed Hawk With Floyd Scholz (reference)

  • Red-Tailed Hawk (Wild Bird Guides) (reference)

  • The Falconer's Apprentice: A Guide to Training the Passage Red-Tailed Hawk (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Red-tailed Hawk

Language Translations for "red-tailed hawk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

buse à queue rousse. (various references)

   

Papago

  

haupul. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ed-tailedray awkhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Red-tailed Hawk

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-h-i-k-l-r-t-w"

-3 letters: headwaiter, threadlike.

-4 letters: airheaded, deathlike, dekaliter, earthlike, eradiated, headwater, trailhead, wealthier.

-5 letters: aweather, daikered, deadlier, dealated, derailed, detailed, detailer, dihedral, dithered, elaterid, eradiate, haltered, harelike, heralded, herdlike, lariated, lathered, radiated, railhead, rawhided, reawaked, redialed, retailed, threaded, treadled, twaddler, tweakier, twiddler, wartlike, weaklier, wheatear, whelkier, wildered, withered, wreathed.

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Alternative Orthography: Red-tailed Hawk


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 2D 74 61 69 6C 65 64      48 61 77 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 00101101 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01001000 01100001 01110111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#45 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#72 &#97 &#119 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 002D 0074 0061 0069 006C 0065 0064      0048 0061 0077 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52717015866775787170242678977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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