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Red-tailed hawks are common throughout
most of North America and occur in a confusing variety of subspecies and color phases. This page shows dark morph birds; other flying red-tails are here.
In flight they show broad wings with 'fingered' primary feathers, dark heads, and an overall stocky, powerful build. Most have a prominent dark bar on the front of the underwing. Only adults have the rusty-red tail that gives the species its name.
These birds were soaring over the San Jacinto Wildlife Area in southern California, or nearby.
Photographs of sitting red-tails are here and here, and another page shows 'Harlan's hawk' (a nothern race of the red-tail).
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