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, 504,768 records. February, 495,608 records. March, 505,763 records. April, 546,223 records. May, 479,974 records. June, 268,014 records. July, 210,385 records. August, 243,193 records. September, 435,374 records. October, 454,363 records. November, 379,847 records. December, 438,362 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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