red-tailed hawk
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noun \ˈred-ˌtāld-\Definition of RED-TAILED HAWK
: a widely distributed chiefly rodent-eating New World hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) that is usually mottled dusky above and white streaked dusky and tinged with buff below and has a rather short typically reddish tail —called also redtail
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1805
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