Unusual Foraging Tactics by a Red-tailed Hawk in an Urban Environment

Renn Tumlison

doi:10.1676/1559-4491-124.4.818

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Renn Tumlison¹

¹Department of Biology, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR 71999, USA; email: tumlison@hsu.edu

Abstract

Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) usually hunt from a perch and swoop down on prey. I observed a novel foraging strategy in which the bird deliberately, and successfully, attacked and deconstructed nests of squirrels to flush or capture prey in an urban environment.

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Renn Tumlison "Unusual Foraging Tactics by a Red-tailed Hawk in an Urban Environment," The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124(4), 818-820, (1 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-124.4.818

Received: 9 March 2012; Accepted: 1 June 2012; Published: 1 December 2012

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