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Definition of Red-shouldered hawk
1. Noun. North American hawk with reddish brown shoulders.
Definition of Red-shouldered hawk
1. Noun. (Buteo lineatus), a medium-sized hawk native to North America ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-shouldered Hawk
Literary usage of Red-shouldered hawk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"The Red-Shouldered Hawk, or, as I would prefer calling it, the Red-breasted Hawk,
although dispersed over the greater part of the United States, ..."
2. The Review of Education (1902)
"188 red-shouldered hawk. 189 Butterflies, Third Series. 190 American Gray Fox.
191 Pectoral Sandpiper. >91 King Bird of Paradise. 191 Gray Squirrel. ..."
3. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"red-shouldered hawk. Buteo lineatus lineatus (Gmel.). ... The red-shouldered hawk
is also more slightly built, the feet and legs in particular being mure ..."
4. Bird Homes: The Nests, Eggs and Breeding Habits of the Land Birds Breeding by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1900)
"The red-shouldered hawk is the most common of the larger hawks, and may be found
... A southern sub-species of the red-shouldered hawk; it is smaller, ..."
5. Bird Homes: The Nests, Eggs, and Breeding Habits of the Land Birds Breeding by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1904)
"The red-shouldered hawk is the most common of the larger hawks, and may be found
... A southern sub-species of the red-shouldered hawk; it is smaller, ..."
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