This is a report that I wrote about the red-tailed hawk and other species of hawk. I hope that you like it.

1. Hawk report
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The red­tailed hawk is a carnivore that means that they will
only eat meat and the type of foods that they will eat is that
they will eat is different types of rodents like they will eat
mice, muskrats and they will also eat squirrels to. These
birds will eat a lot more animals than just rodents the other
animals that will eat is that they will eat opossums, moles,
weasels, they will also eat reptiles like they will eat
snakes. The other animals that they will eat is that they will
eat different types of amphibians and they will also eat other
species of birds to liek they will eat pigeons, quail, crows,
ducks, and they will also eat woodpeckers to. A Hawk will
normally catch their food for when they are flying high up in
the air. The hawk will eat their entire food until it is all
gone. They will mostly being up the the parts that they do not
need and those parts is the fur, the feathers, the teeth and
they will also take out the bones to. All mammals will make
the bulk of the red­tailed hawk’s diet. This means that they
can eat mice, wood rats, rabbits, jackrabbits and it also
means that they will also eat squirrels that live on the
ground. They will also eat other different types of birds to.
They can also eat reptiles to and those animals are turtles,
toads, snakes and they will also eat carrion to. When these
birds are in the wild then th the food that they will is
rodents, rabbits, snakes, lizards, small birds,fish and they
will also eat very bing insects and they will also eat carrion
to.The red­tailed hawk i beings to a group of birds that is
called birds of prey that means that these are the type of
birds that will normally hunt other animals so that they can
get food. There is a very special name for these types of
birds and those birds are called raptors. The food that they
will eat the most is really mammals that are very small. These
are the type of food that they will eat most then they will
eat other animals like fish, they will also eat different
types of rodents like mice, chipmunks, they will also eat
squirrels to. The other animals that they will eat is that
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2. they will eat very small birds they will also eat different
types of insects. These birds will mostly hunt for their prey
when they are sitting high up in the perch and then when they
see an animal than they will start to swoop down very fast so
that they can catch with their talons. when these birds are
diving then these birds can be faster than 100 miles per hour.
These birds have very good eyesight they can even see things
that can be over very far away from where they are
located.When these birds are in a zoo than the food that they
will is that they will eat rats. The other food that they will
eat are lizards, pigeons, ducks and they will also eat other
different birds to.
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The red­tailed hawk are usually found all over the continent
of North America. The type of habitats that these birds can be
found is in swamps, taigas, deserts and they can be found on
so many different types of biomes that can be found all over
North America. Hawks can be found on so many different types
of habitats like they can be found in different types of
forests and they are some that can also be found in lots of
different cities to.They also like to be found in areas where
they can be perch or a very best lookout so that they can look
for food and the type of look outs that they will use is
different trees and they will also use telephone poles to.They
can also be found in live n paces that is in the Continent of
North America and they can also live in Alaska to and they can
also be found on the states of Florida to.The type of places
where these birds can be found is in North America and they
can also be found in Central America to. The type of habitats
that these birds can be found is in open and in wooded areas
and they also like to live in places that are on the edge of a
forest.This bird can also be found on all of the Americas and
that means that they live in is in North and South America.
They can also be live in Central America to. These birds will
also live in the caribbean to.They also can be found in a
place that is called West Indies.The red­tailed hawk lives in
the United states and they can also be found in Canada as
well. These birds can be found all over different type of
places and those places happen to be in Mexico and they can
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3. also live in Central America. There are so many birds that
are in all year long. The best places to ever find a
red­tailed hawk is in grasslands and they will also be found
in march habitats. There are other places where these birds
can be found and those places are in habitats that are in
deserts and they can also be found in habitats that are in
forests to. These birds will normally fly over places that
usually are on top of sea locations. These birds can be found
all over their the continent of North America and the other
places where they can be found in is in south part of
Columbia. They will mostly live in a places that has a lot of
food for them to eat.The birds that live in the north they
will usually travel to the south so that they can go to places
that are warm for them.The other type of habitats that they
can be found is in places that are in deserts, forests and
they can also be found high up in the mountains
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These birds can weigh about 2 or 4 pounds. The length of
these birds is about 18­26 inches.The size of an is about
19­23 inches (48­58 cm) long. The total weight of these
raptors can weigh about 2.5 pounds (1 kg),the wingspan for
these birds is 4 to 4.5 feet (1.2­1.4 m). The red­tailed hawk
is known to be a very big bird. The size of these birds are
just over two feet (0.6 meters) long and the wingspan of these
birds is four feet (1.2 meters). The body length of a hawk is
18 to 22 inches (120 to 141 centimeters). A male red­tailed
hawk can weigh about 2.4 to 2.6 pounds (1.1 to 1.2 kilograms).
The females will usually weigh about 2.8 to 3.3 pounds (1.3 to
1.5 kilograms).These birds can be bigger than 17 to 26 inches
that is how long their head is to their tial.Their tail can be
bigger as 38­56 inch. The wingspan of an red­tailed hawk is
1.5­4 pounds.The males can weigh about 13.5 ounces and the
females can weigh about 4 ounces. The length of these birds
are 14­21 inches and their wingspan of these hawks are 27 to
36 inches. The weight of these hawks are about one and a half
a pound (0.7 kilograms and they can also a little bit than
three pounds (1.4 kilograms).The body length of these birds
are about 18 to 22 inches (45 to 55 centimeters). A male
red­tailed hawk can weigh about 2.4 to 2.6 pounds (1.1 to 1.2
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4. kilograms). The weight of the females are about 2.8 to 3.3
pounds (1.3 to 1.5 kilograms. The wingspan of these birds are
about 47 to 56 inches.These birds can grow about 18­24in
(45­60cm).
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The longest life span that the red­tailed hawk will ever live
for is only for 21 years old and when they are living in a zoo
than they will be able to live until they are about at least
29 years old. When these birds are in their natural habitat
than they can live until they are about 12 years and when they
are in captivity like they are living in a zoo than they will
live about 29 years when they are in a zoo or in a game
preserve.The average life span for a hawk is 21 years. When
these birds are living in the wild then they will live until
they are about 21.5 years. ( The most longest life span for a
red­tailed hawk is usually less than 2 years.)When these birds
are in a zoo than they will live about 29.5 years.These birds
are known to live for a very long time they can even live much
longer than other species of birds do.The most dangerous time
is when they hawk is a still in the nest and they will
activity survive in only for the first year of their lives but
if they are still alive for a 2 years then they will be able
to live until they are about 21 years when they are living in
their natural habitat.The other life span that they have is 12
to 16 years this is a other life span on when they are out in
the wild.The average life span for a the red­tailed hawk is
usually 10 years in their whole life time.
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Hawks are known to have very good eyesight and they can be as
good as 20/2 and they can even see 8 times more better than
any human can. These birds can see things eight times better
than a human can.Their eyesight is so good that they can can
easily spot a very small mammal that is over 100 feet away
from where they are. This is how these amazing birds are great
on what they they do and that is to be a top hunter.The reason
why they have good eyesight is because they have so many
structure retinas that can go for 1,000 per square mm this is
how well the retina is for 2000,000 per square mm this is how
the retina is for a person. The red­tailed hawk has a huge
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5. number of nerves that can easily connect to the receptors that
can go up to the brain. Hawks are known to have a second eye
muscles and there are so many animals that do not have this
type of figure and these birds also have an indented
fovea.This makes the central part of the visual field a whole
lot bigger than it already is.The red­tailed hawk is just
like any other raptor in the world and that is they have
amazing eyesight. These birds can even see objects in
different colors just like how people see things to.They can
see things that can be all over their home range this also
means that they can even see different colors that people can
never see in a person’s whole time. The Red­tailed hawk is an
diurnal hunter that means that they only hunt during the day
and they will normally sleep when it gets dark out. They do
not just see well in color they can also see things that are
in black and white as well but they will only see black and
white when they are hunting at dusk.This is usually the best
time of the day for the hawk to look for food that is because
most of the animals that the hawks eats are mostly nocturnal
that means that they are active at night and they will mostly
sleep during the day and the best animals that they like to
eat is at night is different types of rodents like mice and
rats. That is the time when rodents like to wake up and move
around in there habitat. These birds of prey have an
nictitating membrane this will activity help these birds to
make sure that their inner eyelids is cleared up so that they
can be clean enough so that their eyes can be protected.
These eye lids helps them to protect their eyes for when they
are fighting other animals that they will usually use for
their prey.The food that they eat the most is really rodents
and they will normally eat them when they are alive. When a
hawk finds its prey then it will have to catch it and then it
will have to protect it from other hawks that will want to
take it away from the hawk that catch the prey in the first
place. There are only about a half of red­tailed hawks that
will activity make it for in their very first year of their
whole life time.
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The red­tailed hawk is famous for flying in a very big circle
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6. that is way up high in the sky. So that they can be tall when
they are on a pole of an highway so that they will get a good
look on what is going on around them and they will use their
very good eyesight to help them to look for their next meal.
When they do find an animal that they want to kill than the
hawk will start to use their supar strong talons that will
help them to grab the animal that they have found and the next
thing that they do is that they will make a very big and
powerful bite right on the animal’s neck. These birds will
normally fly in a very big circle. They can even see a very
small mouse when they are 100 feet high up in the air. When
they are high up in the sky that is like ten stories high. The
most average speed for a red­tailed hawk when they are flying
high up in the sky and their total speed is when they are
flying at least 20­40 mph. The red­tailed hawk has a very good
sense that they have is this that they have very good eye
vision that can help these birds to figure out how fast or how
slow or the direction that the animal is going is there prey
is moving and they can even see things that can be very far
away.The red­tailed hawk was made to fly very high up in the
sky and they will normally spend a lot of their time riding
thermals so that it will be easy to spot their prey from where
they are from a far. They can also be found sitting on top of
utility poles and snags. theses will be the type of places
where they can look for rodents that can be found somewhere
hiding in the grass and on a side of a road.
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A adult red­tailed hawk can make sound that is called the
horse scream and it sounds like this Kee­eee­arrr. This is the
sound that can be heard in lots of different movies that these
raptors were in. A adult red­tailed hawk can make a call that
sounds a lot like a steam whistle. The length and the pitch of
these calls comes in so many different but it really depends
on the age, the gender and the geographic region that can come
in a single hawk. The hawks that can be very young they will
normally make a very soft and very low peeping.This sound can
have an deep tone but it really counts on their age. They will
usually make that sound when they are hungry. The sounds that
the red tailed hawk will make is a type of sound that goes
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7. like this Kree­eee­ar and this sound is called a raspy,
scraping scream. A raspy cry that they make. A person might
hear these sounds in lots of different movies so that they can
react a eagle and a very big hawk that can be found anywhere
in the world. The red­tailed hawk is very famous for their
very special piercing screams and they will normally use these
special calls so that they can tell other raptors that are in
the area to stay away from them and from them and they will
also use these calls to communicate with a mate. There has
been so many famous hollywood movies makers that have been
using these calls in lots of their movies. They will use their
very loud calls to make a voice for a eagle and for a very big
hawk as an art and an literature that can be placed up on the
big screen.The red­tailed hawk has an vocal tone and these
birds will also have a rasping sound and this sound is called
the 2 to 3 second scream and they will usually use their sound
when they are flying high in the sky. They will get a lot
louder but it really depends on where they are located at.
There is another call that they use to but this call is only
used is when the parents leave the nest and this call is
normally done by the young hawks and they will normally sound
very loud and this call sounds like this Klee­uk and they will
normally do this at least seven times and the young ones will
normally use this call to tell their parents that they are
hungry and they want something to eat.The red­tailed hawk has
to many predators that they have to look out for and the
animals that are their predators is the great­horned owl and
they can also be killed by crows. These birds can be very
dangerous for their young and they are also known to destroy
their nests and they will also kill their offspring to. A
adult red­tailed hawk can be an very big bird and these birds
only just have a few animals that are known to see them as an
other animals food source. The most dangerous time for any
red­tailed hawks life is really when they are in a egg or if
they are an younger. The animals that are known to kill these
birds are snakes, great­horned owls, raccoons, eagles and
foxes these are all the animals that will kill these birds for
food.
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8. The red­tailed hawk will usually mate for life which means
that they stay with their partner for a very long time or
until the other partner dies or gets killed. The courtship of
these birds are just like their territorial displays. A
red­tailed hawk will normally come out of an egg that has an
grayish white color and this egg can also have specks on these
eggs to and they can and they can also be very big to. The
nest can be bigger as 3 feet (1 meter) long and the females
will build their nest out of twigs and branches that will
usually will be made high up in a very big tall tree. They can
even put their nests in trees that can be as big as 70 feet
(21 meters) that can be big above the ground. The hawks that
live in opened areas then they will make their nests in
different types of places like they can be found on top of an
cactus, shrub and they can also be found on a cliff ledge.
When the babies come out of the egg than the parents will be
way too busy because they have to take care of their babies.
The chicks are completely helpless the moment that they get
out of the egg but they will normally grow and they will
learn how to fly very fast. The baby chicks will start to
leave the nest in 45 days. When that stage comfes than the
chicks will start to chase their parents so that they can get
food for them. When the adults have found something to eat
than the parents will start to drop whatever food that they
catch so that the youngers can catch it. When the chicks are
too full to eat anymore than they will start to playing
chasing games with their brothers and sisters. These games are
great ways for the chicks for when they catch their own food
for themselves. When the chicks continue to grow than the
parents will start to hunt and they will drop their food so
that the chicks can catch if in their beaks. The chicks will
also chase their food to. the more skills that the chicks
learn than the parents do not have to help them that is
because the the chicks will be forced to hunt all by
themselves.. The time of year where the red tailed hawk will
be ready to make a nest in February though the mouth of June.
A female red­tailed hawk will lay only one or four eggs. THe
eggs will take about 28 to 32 days until they are ready to
come out of the eggs. The young are both being taken care of
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9. by both parents. The youngers are all covered with an white
down which will usually last for the first week of the chicks
lives or until their feather have started to grow. The chicks
are ready to leave the nest in six or in seven weeks. THat
will be the time when they leave the nest for good. Both the
male and the female will build the nest together or they will
find one from another bird that was all ready build by another
bird. The rest of them or 3 feet across. The time when they
are building a nest than they usually find a tall piles of dry
sticks that can be bigger than 6.5 feet high and 3 feet
across. The inner cubis normally lined up with the bark
strips, fresh foliage and the inner cubis will also be covered
with dry vegetation. This type of building will normally build
their nest as a shape of a crown that i placed on top of the
highest tree so that they can have very good view on what is
going on in their habitat. These birds do not just make their
nests in trees they can also build them in other different
types of places to like they can build their nests on a cliff
ledge or on an artificial structure like they can put them on
window ledges and they can also build them on a billboard
platform. The incubation period for a red­tailed hawk is
usually about 30 days. These birds will reach maturity about 1
to 2 years. The hawks will normally build their nests as a
shape of a crown that can be found on very long tall tree and
they will also find them on a cliff ledge to. They can also
placed their nest on a crook that is usually located on a
saguaro cactus arm or they can be found on a billboard
platform to. All of these great places all have very good
views of these birds surroundings of their environment that is
around them. The nest are made out of piles of very dry sticks
that can be 6 feet high and 3 feet across. Inside of their
nest is all covered with feathers, fresh plant material and on
dry vegetation that are usually lined up all over the nest.The
red­tailed hawk will start to mate and make their nests in the
early spring mostly in the month of march. The number of eggs
that the red­tailed hawk will lay will normally will be two or
three eggs. The color of the eggs are usually the color of
white and there are sometimes that they can have a much bluish
white that has red spots on it. The incubation period will
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10. usually take about 28 to 32 days and the incubation period is
normally done by the females. During the Incubation period
than that will be the time will be the time when the male does
all of the hunting in the family and for himself to. The
chicks will normally remain in the nest in 48 days. There are
sometimes that they will not be ready to leave until it is in
45 days than that will be the time when the chicks will start
to leave the nest for good. The nest of an of an red­tailed
hawk are made out of very strong sticks and twigs that are
normally build on trees and on cliffs it will often be lined
up with the tree­bark, sprigs of evergreen and fresh green
leaves. They will also find another nest that has been made by
another bird like the great­horned owl. After they are done
with taking care of their chicks and they are grown up and if
the parents are in season again and they will usually use the
same nest as they used the year before. The chicks will be
ready to fly in 45 days.
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There are some hawks that are being used as falconry. People
are also killing these birds for sport as they are being
trained to kill other animals for their owner. Hawks are not
the only bird that is getting killed for sport the other birds
that they are killing is all different types of eagles and
they will also kill a falcon to they will use these birds so
that they can follow and catch really small animals.The hawks
that live in the United States they are sometimes they are
getting shot for sport there are a lot of rangers that are
doing the shooting in the first place the reason why they shot
these great birds is because they believe that these birds may
depredate for their livestock. This is causing a lot of
problems for the hawk conservation but it really depends on
that type of area but there are other places in the world
where these birds that are living in and these places are
protected areas that are being protected by the law. The
red­tailed hawk’s population is listed under common these
birds population can be stable and they can also grow all over
the continent of North America. The most common threat to any
animal that lives in North America and that all includes all
of its wildlife and that also means the red­tailed hawk to.
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11. These hunters are very vulnerable that is because these birds
are losing their homes and environmental toxins this a very
big problem for the very young red­tailed hawks. The danger
that these birds are going though is that these birds are
getting roden over by cars. But their are other people that
are mking preserves on where these birds live and these
preserves can be found on every wild places on where these
birds live and those places are different types of plains or
meadows, vast forests and they can also be found near any city
parks to, The point of these preserves so that they can hunt
and raise their young so that they can do these activities in
peace without being near humans but these preserves are just
not for the red­tailed hawk they can also be all the other
wild creatures that share the same habitat that the red­tailed
hawk lives. The red­tailed hawk are very important to nature
and that is because they keep the populations of very small
animals like mice and rabbits and they will keep these
populations under control. The other reason why because these
birds are very important is because they can make a lot of new
homes for other bird species to live in their nests that the
bird has made in the past.
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We must do something to help and to save these amazing
animals. These birds need all the help that they can get. The
red­tailed hawk has the right to continue living on this
planet. They are doing their part in nature and we should find
a place in nature to. This is a really big planet that is
filled with wonders and discoveries that is just waiting to be
found. We have to make this planet a safe place for us and for
other creatures that we share it with. This is our beautiful
home it deserves to have a second chance to live on for the
next generation to come on this planet. There is a really big,
bright and beautiful future If we do to protect our planet,
than our world and our home will be a much happier and a much
cleaner place to live on.We have to make room for other living
creatures to. God made animals for a reason just like he made
us. That is what I know about the red­tailed hawk. If we all
work together we can save the red­tailed hawk and the other
animals that lives on this planet to. Together we can make a
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12. difference in our beautiful planet that we all share. Thank
you so much for doing your part. With you reading and enjoying
this book. You are helping your favorite animal and its
survival in the world. Without your support and love and
respect. your favorite animal will have a chance to make a
comeback. This is a huge thank you for helping these animals
and everything else that has to do with nature. Nature it is
very important. Without nature our planet will not be so
beautiful and full of wonder that can open a persons eyes to
world that they never had imagined. Nature thanks you for your
support.
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