The Collaborative International Dictionary
Red-tailed \Red"-tailed`\ (-t?ld`), a. Having a red tail.
Red-tailed hawk (Zo["o]l.), a large North American hawk ( Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.
Usage examples of "red-tailed".
To take her mind off the riffraff, JoLayne recited for Tom Krome a roster of local birds, resident and migratory: ospreys, snowy egrets, white herons, blue herons, kingfishers, flycatchers, cardinals, grackles, robins, red-tailed hawks, white-crowned pigeons, flickers, roseate spoonbills .
To take her mind off the riffraff, JoLayne recited for Tom Krome a roster of local birds, resident and migratory: ospreys, snowy egrets, white herons, blue herons, kingfishers, flycatchers, cardinals, grackles, robins, red-tailed hawks, white-crowned pigeons, flickers, roseate spoonbills.
The zigzagging of the great snipe and the lightning rapidity of the flight and movements of the red-tailed hawk make the pastime a delightful one.
Someone pointed out a red-tailed hawk in a bare tree, and someone else said that it looked more like a falcon, but it flew away and the argument was abandoned.
A red-tailed hawk passed overhead, riding rising currents of hot air from hill to hill without flapping its outstretched wings.
A stream gurgled downhill, somewhere out of sight, and a red-tailed hawk circled high overhead.
The red-tailed hawk drifted in languorous spirals beneath his feet, miles above the floor.
To the south, a red-tailed hawk circled--suddenly it dove toward a prairie dog settlement, but came up empty-handed.
Bailie the Red shook his head gently, his callused archer's hands caressing the red-tailed hawk fletchings on his arrows.
There was a box full of bird feathers: from blue jays, a cardinal, a crow, and a banded feather that she thought might have come from a red-tailed hawk, but she wasn't sure.
Debbie's red-tailed hawk, Lucas, is the real-life character upon which Larken's hawk is based.
A gopher, a turkey, a fawn, a red-tailed hawk, a half-starved cat as big as Hammer, and a family of six raccoons all filed up to Morth and sorted themselves by size.
The Apprentice falconer is only permitted to train and fly the red-tailed hawk or the kestrel (North American sparrowhawk) and must do so under the auspices of a Master.
Together, they hurried toward the dead rabbit, wanting to get there before a red-tailed hawk or a day-owl swooped on it from the gray sky above.