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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RED-TAILED

RED-TAILED Red "-tailed ` (-tld `), a.

Defn: Having a red tail. Red-tailed hawk (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis ). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.

New American Oxford Dictionary

red-tailed hawk

red-tailed hawk ▶noun the most common and most widespread hawk of North and Central America, with a reddish tail. [Buteo jamaicensis, family Accipitridae. ]

Oxford Dictionary

red-tailed hawk

red-tailed hawk ▶noun the commonest and most widespread buzzard of North and Central America, with a reddish tail. ●Buteo jamaicensis, family Accipitridae.