Wiktionary
n. A medium-sized hawk native to North America, of species ''Buteo lineatus''.
WordNet
n. North American hawk with reddish brown shoulders [syn: Buteo lineatus]
Wikipedia
The red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized hawk. Its breeding range spans eastern North America and along the coast of California and northern to northeastern-central Mexico. Red-shouldered hawks are permanent residents throughout most of their range, though northern birds do migrate, mostly to central Mexico. The main conservation threat to the widespread species is deforestation.
Usage examples of "red-shouldered hawk".
The bird on the female fighter's fist was no longer a red-shouldered hawk.
The red-shouldered hawk had taken a position just above the door of the gryphons' lair, her head up and into the wind, her wings slightly mantled.
Twilly had gone to deliver a red-shouldered hawk that appeared to have been shot.
She stopped to point out bobcat scat, deer tracks and a red-shouldered hawk in the treetops.
It was a red-shouldered hawk, flying silently and skillfully through the tangled lattice of twisted live oak branches.