Talk:Red-tailed hawk

GA Review

I have reviewed this article according to the Good Article criteria and have passed the article. It is very comprehensive, well-written, stable, and well sourced. Good job to the contributors who have made this such a nice article. The only nitpick that I'd mention is that the lead section is a bit too lengthy; three paragraphs would be ideal and trim out some of the information that is a verbatim cut-and-paste from the main body. In my experience, as soon as you do trim it down, someone else will come along and claim that the lead is too short, so take the advice with a grain of salt. Good job! Neil916 (Talk) 06:13, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Now, many years later, I do not think this is the article that was once reviewed. It is certainly not currently "well-written", it is very messy and turgid. And incredibly over-long (or so disorganized it seems to be). Huw Powell (talk) 04:07, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

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The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. It occupies a wide range of habitats and altitudes, including deserts, grasslands, forests, agricultural fields, and urban areas. Red-tailed hawks are opportunistic generalists and their diet is variable. In North America, they are most often predators of small mammals such as rodents. Prey that is terrestrial and at least partially diurnal is preferred, so types such as ground squirrels are preferred where they naturally occur. The bird is legally protected in Canada and Mexico, and in the United States by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. This red-tailed hawk in flight was photographed at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge in California.

Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg

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