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red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) identified for its
young age by its yellowish irises and lack of red tail,
eats a ladder-backed woodpecker that it caught in flight.
Red-tailed hawks weigh from 1.5 to 2.5 pounds and eat
mice, rabbits, snakes and other birds. All so known as the
chicken hawk, it can only kill small chickens. A
