Red-tailed Hawk

Taxonomy

Order

Accipitriformes

Family

Accipitridae

Genus

Buteo

eBird Code

rethaw

Subspecies (13)

• Buteo jamaicensis alascensis

  largely resident, southeastern Alaska and coastal British Columbia

• Buteo jamaicensis borealis

  breeds North America (east of the Great Plains); winters to eastern Mexico

• Buteo jamaicensis calurus

  breeds western North America (west of the Great Plains); winters to Central America

• Buteo jamaicensis costaricensis

  Costa Rica and western Panama

• Buteo jamaicensis fuertesi

  resident, southeastern Arizona and Texas southward to northern Mexico

• Buteo jamaicensis fumosus

  Tres Marías Islands (off western Mexico)

• Buteo jamaicensis hadropus

  highlands of central Mexico

• Buteo jamaicensis harlani

  breeds interior Alaska to southwestern Yukon and northern British Columbia; winters to Great Plains and Midwest to Gulf coast of US

• Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis

  Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and northern Lesser Antilles

• Buteo jamaicensis kemsiesi

  southern Mexico (Chiapas) to northern Nicaragua

• Buteo jamaicensis socorroensis

  Socorro Island (Revillagigedo Islands off western Mexico)

• Buteo jamaicensis suttoni

  resident, southern Sierra de la Laguna region, Baja California Peninsula (Mexico)

• Buteo jamaicensis umbrinus

  Florida (USA), Bahamas and Cuba