Species profile
Red-shouldered Hawk
Buteo lineatus
Quick answer
A medium-sized forest hawk with barred rufous underparts and a ringing kee-yah call.
- Scientific name
- Buteo lineatus
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Genus
- Buteo
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Habitat
Bottomland forest, wooded suburbs
Recording Red-shouldered Hawk in your journal
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Related species in Accipitridae
- African Cuckoo-hawk (Aviceda cuculoides)
- African Fish-eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer)
- African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro)
- African Harrier-hawk (Polyboroides typus)
- African Hawk-Eagle (Aquila spilogaster)
- African Marsh-harrier (Circus ranivorus)
- Amplibuteo concordatus (Amplibuteo concordatus)
- Amplibuteo hibbardi (Amplibuteo hibbardi)