Red-Tailed Hawks

Photo: Sama Wareh

Red-tailed Hawks are awesome birds.  They are in a group of birds called The Birds of Prey. One of the ways to identify a Red-tailed Hawk is by its white chest and rusty tail. The younger red tailed hawks however lack the rusty red tail. Red-tailed hawks live in deciduous forests and open country of various kinds. Some of the places that they live in are tundras, plains, and farmlands. They lay two or three white eggs, with brown spots, in a bulky nest of sticks lined with fresh green vegetation. Their nests can be found in large trees or rocky ledges. Their diet consists of rodents such as mice, and rats.

By: Ilyas Rizvi  Age 10