Red-Shouldered Hawk - Learn a Bird - Episode #44
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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Hawk migration season is full on during this mid-September video of Dan sharing all about the mouthy, fabulous Red-Shouldered Hawk. A smaller member of the Buteo group of soaring hawks, watch & learn all about who mimics this bird (in addition to Dan, that is) as well as which nocturnal bird eats the same diet as the Red Shouldered Hawk...
Had one at my bird feeder yesterday, it wasn’t for the sunflowers either
I bet it wasn't ;)
Thank you for this informative bird info. Love when you post!
You're quite welcome
Thanks again! It’s so amazing how you can make the calls of all the birds you feature.
Any thoughts on why the blue jay mimics the RSH? Is it sentinel behavior?
I wonder about BLJA's and RSHA imitations a lot. In short, I'm just not sure...but my hunch is that it's just fun to mess with other birds for them.
In CA our Stellar's Jays mimic the red-tail's signature scream. I'm sure they mimic the red-shouldered as well.
Magnificent raptors! We have a pair of RSHA that live by the creek behind my house in Western NC. One of their juveniles came by the other day hunting a chipmunk and perched a few feet outside out window! I can attest to 🎯 bluejay mimicking as well!
I've been wondering why the pair we have has been circling around each other calling in September. If it were spring, I'd assume it was mating behavior. Maybe they're renewing bonds or something, idk. Or perhaps an interloper was in their territory (or they are proactively staking their claim). Or maybe they're just hungry/bored. 😂 I watched our 2 circle each other & call for about 30 minutes a few days ago.
Hi Dan. Thanks for this episode. You made me feel so good when you explained the amazing mimicry of the Blue Jay doing the Red Shouldered Hawk call. I have both visit my yard and cannot tell them apart. Always relieved when it's the Blue Jays just coming in to hog the peanuts I put out.
Awesome!
I taught in the Redwood Forest for 26 years, and the Red Shouldered Hawk was a dominant predator in our forest such a beautiful call screaming above. I once had a group of students gathered near a redwood and could hear a preached RSH screeching away. I have a visual disability and had the students help spot it. Do you see it? No but we see a Stellars Jay hahahaha. I laughed and laughed because that Jay got me good.
They're so smart and sneaky!
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Welcome!
Thank you for this information. We have seen more this year (in Indiana) than ever before. But-What’s a collective noun for the red shouldered hawk?!?!
Excellent video! I was wondering about that mimicry, because I associated it with jays. glad this clarified it for me haha
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I'm amazed by your ability to mimic the sounds. Unreal
I have a lot of these around my place in the Piedmont section of North Carolina. They love to hunt around the creek which is very close to my front door. There's a lot of voles for them to eat, and I've seen the evidence of that because they leave the carcass behind when they've got all they want. I was a bit baffled when I found the carcasses in one spot in my yard because I just didn't connect the dots as to how or what was eating them. One day I opened my front door abruptly early in the morning, and there was the culprit - a Red-shouldered hawk in the spot finishing a vole. He looked at me as if to say, "Why did you interrupt my great meal this morning sir?" Haha, and then he flew off. They are amazing birds.
Because of Equinox, Cooper's Hawks and other hawks also call around the Equinox. Only for a few days though.