Image:Red-tailed Hawk KSC00pp0245.jpg

en:Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis

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According to en:User:24.113.115.46 this picture is incorrectly labeled as a Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), this is actually a juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus).

Source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=6034

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This red-tailed hawk on the roadside at Kennedy Space Center appears to be eyeing the photographer. The red-tailed hawk has a stocky build and broad, rounded wings. Its wide range covers Alaska and Nova Scotia south to Panama. It can frequently be seen perched in a tree at the edge of a meadow, watching for movement in the grass below. It feeds mainly on small rodents.