Red-shouldered Hawk

Buteo lineatus

Red-shouldered Hawk photographed by Mark Curtis
Waco · March 15, 2026
Red-shouldered Hawk photographed by Mark Curtis
Waco · March 15, 2026

When to look

Reported most in April, across 5M open records.

Records by month. January, 505,199 records. February, 496,044 records. March, 506,259 records. April, 546,724 records. May, 480,774 records. June, 268,496 records. July, 210,675 records. August, 243,614 records. September, 435,949 records. October, 454,626 records. November, 380,020 records. December, 438,608 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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