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Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensis · Family Accipitridae
Buteo jamaicensis
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 12,464,901
- Countries and territories with records
- 47
About this species
This species has 12,464,901 occurrence records from 47 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (89.8%) and Canada (8.7%); together they account for 98.5% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buteo jamaicensis combines the genus name Buteo with the species epithet jamaicensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 27 species of the genus Buteo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Buteo buteo, Buteo lineatus and Buteo lagopus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 30.3 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.