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 4.8M open records.

Records by month. January, 469,535 records. February, 477,407 records. March, 496,965 records. April, 527,113 records. May, 465,074 records. June, 266,425 records. July, 211,809 records. August, 246,145 records. September, 424,746 records. October, 436,928 records. November, 358,935 records. December, 397,103 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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