buteo jamaicensis

1. 1.

   dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail

   Synonymsredtailred-tailed hawk

   Broaderhawk

   Part ofButeo

Questions about buteo jamaicensis

What does buteo jamaicensis mean?

buteo jamaicensis means "dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail".

What is another word for buteo jamaicensis?

Close synonyms include redtail, red-tailed hawk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buteo jamaicensis a common word?

buteo jamaicensis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.