Red-shouldered Hawk feeding
Buteo lineatus
Red-shouldered Hawk · San Diego Botanic Garden · 7 March 2026
A Red-shouldered Hawk with prey in the bill in a San Diego garden in March. The Californian birds are a distinct race of an eastern woodland hawk, redder and more richly coloured, and far more at home in suburbs, where they nest in eucalyptus and call from lamp posts.
Red-shouldered Hawks hunt from a still perch rather than by soaring, watching the ground below for the lizards, small mammals and large insects that make up most of the diet in a Californian garden.
Birds, insects, plants and other wildlife, mostly from Brooklyn, with some from further afield.
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