Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

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The red-tailed hawk is the source of an often-used cinematic sound. Just think of a lonely, foreboding wilderness scene during a movie, and odds are good that the high pitched, echoing call of a red-tailed hawk will fill the air! Anyone can see them perched high on the top of a tree, or highway telephone pole, from where their red tail feathers are difficult to see, but here on Vancouver Island, we often fly above the hawks where their bright tails are easy to spot.