All around the world, except for places like North America, hawks are referred to as buzzards. She got hair on her head. I am not kidding about this. However, if there is a single locality most closely associated with this species, it is the Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe. In this rugged, granite-hilled country the birds are common, and many of their nests have been found and monitored over the years.
Females have black bibs on their throats wheras males' throats are white.
They dine on reptiles, rodents, insects, gamebirds and hare. They have this marvellous ability to hang motionless in the air, riding strong winds slicing off hillcrests. Additional information on Hawks is available on our Links page. The Red-Tailed Hawk is a robust, powerful buteo adapted for taking a wide variety of prey from mice to muskrats. They range all over North America.