1. Red-tailed Hawk - the Bitterroot's most common Buteo

2. The red-tailed hawk is a member of a group of broad-winged soaring hawks collectively known as Buteos

3. With its 56-inch wingspan, a mature female red-tailed hawk can weigh up to four pounds and dive for the kill at 120mph.

4. The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), the most common North American species, is about 60 cm (24 inches) long, varying in colour but generally brownish above and somewhat…

5. Competition and predation Logging may also have the indirect effect of increasing habitat suitability for predators (such as the Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus, Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis, Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis) or competitors (like the Barred Owl Strix varia).

6. ‘The Swainson's Hawk is a slender Buteo, similar in length to the Red-tailed Hawk, but with a longer wingspan and weighing about 20% less.’ ‘I saw an Eagle, most likely a Spotted Eagle, a Buteo of some sort, and an accipiter, either a Eurasian Sparrowhawk or a Levant Sparrowhawk.’

7. Accipiters There are 47 species of Accipiter world-wide with three species of Accipiters in North America. The smallest is the Sharp-shinned Hawk (about the size of a robin), the medium sized is the Cooper's Hawk (about the size of a crow)and the largest is the Northern Goshawk (about the size of a Red-tailed Hawk).