The eagle sounds like a disappointed gull.
I love that there are still people learning that for the first time. Keep it going.
Another fun fact about red-tailed hawk screams: blue jays will imitate them, so sometimes when you hear it outside that doesn’t even mean one is close. It’s not known for certain why they do it, but I suspect it’s because they’re little bastards (affectionate)
I assumed jays do it since they are nest robbers trying to scare off a mom/pop.
Because blue jays are kind of assholes.
They are corvids, so they’re super smart.
Idk, Conan was pretty convincing when fans called him out years ago.
Also a fun fact: red-tailed hawks aren’t hawks, they’re a type of buzzard.
Really? Got a source? I’m not doubting you, just intensely curious
It’s a terminology clash.
In the US, it’s common to refer to vultures as buzzards, but in much of the rest of the world, buzzard refers to what I’ve heard referred to as the “broad winged hawks” like the red tailed hawk and the red shouldered hawk. In contrast to the “short winged hawks” (accipiters) , like the Cooper’s hawk or the sharp shinned hawk.
A similar naming clash exists with sparrow hawks, which are hawks, except for what we in the US call a sparrow hawk, which is a type of falcon.
So red tailed hawks are a type of hawk, and in some places are called buzzards.
Red-tailed hawks are of the genus Buteo. Per the Wikipedia article on hawks:
In the United States, members of the Buteo group are also called hawks, though birds of this group are called buzzards in other parts of the world.
I always heard bald eagle calls as an “ukikiki” sound, they are pretty common here in my part of British Columbia.
The Canada Eagle*. We have most of them now, we should rename them.
Shhh… if orange baby hears, he’s going to rename the bird to Canada America…
Holy shit! Do it.
