buteo lineatus

1. 1.

   North American hawk with reddish brown shoulders

   Synonymsred-shouldered hawk

   Broaderhawk

   Part ofButeo

Questions about buteo lineatus

What does buteo lineatus mean?

buteo lineatus means "North American hawk with reddish brown shoulders".

What is another word for buteo lineatus?

Close synonyms include red-shouldered 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 lineatus a common word?

buteo lineatus 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.