Kyle Hoggan
Overly
Pd. 5
May 20, 2008
The Tail Hawk
The Red Tailed Hawk or Buteo jamaicensis is an amazing animal. It is in the class called Aves. Witch means able to fly. The Hawk will reach sexual maturity within the first three years of its life. When full grown a hawk will weigh between two and four pounds, has a wing span of fifty-six inches and will be twenty-two inches long. They will mate every year in the spring. The female hawk will have between one and three eggs per year. The incubation period is between twenty-eight and thirty- two days. The life span is between ten and twenty-one years.
The food sources of this animal are small rodents and snakes they will also scavange for food. The hawk has no major predators. The red tailed hawk builds it nest in trees. The hawk mostly lives on by its self except when they live with the mom and dad when they are born. Changes made to the environment are it picks up small twigs and branches to build the nest. They also add string and twine that they find. Most of the nests are up more of twenty feet so they are not botherd by people or animal that want to eat the eggs.