Red Tail Hawk Drying Outstretched Wings Royalty-Free Stock Photography

The Red-tailed Hawk is a bird of open country. Look for it along fields and perched on telephones poles, fenceposts, or trees standing alone or along edges of fields. The red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis is a bird of prey, This is the most widespread and familiar large hawk in North America, bulky and broad-winged, designed for effortless soaring. An inhabitant of open country, it is commonly seen perched on roadside poles or sailing over fields and woods. Those feathers are all important – they will keep them dry and wet when they all come in and they will help them fly so they can hunt. They say birds spend 70% of their time conditioning and preening their feathers. Spotted drying his wet feathers after a rain shower through the FingerLakes NYS.