Police are investigating after a red-tailed hawk was found in Paxton, Massachusetts, with the feathers of its wings and tail ...

This species is one of the most widely distributed, abundant, well-known, and well-named birds in North ... Summer male: black, including soft parts, with bright red shoulder patch or “epaulet ...

A medium-size buteo with rounded wing tips that do not ... Rufous on the upperwing coverts gives the “red shoulders.” The primaries are barred or checkered black and white, the dark tail ...

It also has a special weapon, a needled beak that enables it to probe deep into crevices for larvae and eggs of insects ...