#1260 · 🐦 birds

Red-shouldered Hawk

🇳🇱 Roodschouderbuizerd ·Buteo lineatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © spinomaly · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Gracie Catanzaro · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Peter May · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © w_fran · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jonathan Eisen · CC BY 4.0
6. © Tommy Farquhar · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA:© Linzy L. · CC BY-SA 4.0
8. East County Civic Group, FL, USA:© meadows_s_21 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA:© Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
10. Florida, US:© Mark Kenderdine · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red-shouldered hawk ( Buteo lineatus ) is a medium-sized hawk. Its breeding range spans eastern North America and along the coast of California and northern to northeastern-central Mexico. Red-shouldered hawks are permanent residents throughout most of their range, though northern birds do migrate, mostly to central Mexico. The main conservation threat to the widespread species is deforestation.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 178,379iNaturalist observations
weight 701 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
178,379 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 701 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 (238 years ago).