Roadside Hawk
Roadside Hawk: This small, long legged tropical species common from Mexico to Argentina is casual in winter to the Rio Grande Valley. Gray-brown upperparts and rufous belly with white to buff coarse bars. Tail is banded with white tip. Flies with stiff, rapid wingbeats and hunts along roadsides.
● Song:
"KREE-yurr", "meeahhh"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Roadside Hawk: Eats large insects, reptiles and small mammals which it finds on roadsides and field edges.
● Breeding & nesting:
Roadside Hawk: Two white eggs speckled with brown are laid in a nest built by both sexes of sticks, in trees 20-60 feet above ground. Incubations is 21-27 days primarily by the female.
● Similar species:
Roadside Hawk: Broad-winged Hawk has a shorter dark tail with wide white bands. Red-shouldered Hawk juvenile is larger and shows a narrow pale panel across base of outer primaries in flight.