Hawk

**[|www.allaboutbirds.org] ** || =The broad winged hawk is a medium sized hawk with broad pale wings with a dark trailing edge. The tail is medium short, dark with a thick white band in the middle, and a thin white band near the tip= || || ** The oldest known Red-tailed Hawk was 28 years 10 months old ** ** www.allaboutbirds.org ** || **As they circle and soar, they can spot a mouse from 100 feet (30 meters) up in the air—about ten stories high. **
 * [[image:hawl.jpg width="629" height="528"]] ||= [[image:http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/red_tailed_hawk_11.jpg caption="Light morph adult" link="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/spp_photos.aspx?spp=1&sppid=422&keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=488&width=875"]]
 * Red-tailed Hawk is a bird of open country. Look for it along fields and perched on telephones poles, fence posts, or trees standing alone or along edges of fields. **
 * =A small, stocky, forest-dwelling hawk of eastern deciduous forests.=
 * [[image:http://images.northrup.org/picture/xl/red-tailed-hawk/red-tailed-hawk-perched-closeup.jpg width="395" height="491" caption="Red Tailed Hawk Perched : by http://www.northrup.org/photos/red-tailed-hawk/"]]

**kids.nationalgeographic.com **
 * A red-tailed hawk is a big bird, with a body that can reach just over two feet (0.6 meters) long and a wingspan of over four feet (1.2 meters).**

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