red-shouldered hawk

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   North American hawk with reddish brown shoulders

   SynonymsButeo lineatus

   Broaderhawk

   Part ofButeo

Questions about red-shouldered hawk

What does red-shouldered hawk mean?

red-shouldered hawk means "North American hawk with reddish brown shoulders".

What is another word for red-shouldered hawk?

Close synonyms include Buteo lineatus. 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 red-shouldered hawk a common word?

red-shouldered hawk 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.