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Contemplating Dinner

Red-tailed Hawk. (Immature Cooper's Hawk?) * A group of hawks has many collective nouns, including a "boil", "knot", "spiraling", "stream", and "tower" of hawks. * Males and females perform a courtship ritual in which they dive and roll in the sky. They will even lock talons and fall together a distance before splitting apart. * The raspy cry of the Red-tailed Hawk is typically used in movies to represent any eagle or hawk anywhere in the world. * They can spot a mouse from a height of 100 feet. IMG_3817

 

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