Eastern red-tailed hawk

Eastern red-tailed hawk
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Buteo
Species:
Subspecies:
B. j. borealis
Trinomial name
Buteo jamaicensis borealis
(Gmelin, 1788)

The eastern red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis borealis)[1] is a subspecies of the red-tailed hawk that breeds from southeast Canada and Maine south through Texas and east to northern Florida.

  1. ^ Sibley, David Allen (19 December 2009). "Subspecies names in the Sibley Guide to Birds". Sibley Guides: Identification of North American Birds and Trees. Random House. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 2014-05-04. Website based on / supplement to book, Sibley, David Allen (11 March 2014). The Sibley Guide to Birds (Second ed.). Knopf Doubleday (Random House). ISBN 9780307957900.