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Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) with wings spread and talons extended, preparing to land against a pale blue sky. Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) with yellow eyes and striped chest feathers perched on a tree stump, looking alert. Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus) ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis)
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osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). A grid diagram illustrating the Hawk-Dove model, with hawk and dove animals representing aggressive and passive strategies in resource fights. Each cell shows outcomes, payoffs, and risks depending on whether a hawk or dove encounters another hawk or dove.
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Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis).
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Hawk: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 12, 2026
Modified link of Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Hawks and Owls (PDF). Sep 02, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Complete Genome Sequences of 87 Species of Hawks (Accipitriformes, Aves). Jun 12, 2026
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Hawks and Owls (PDF). Jan 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - Hawks and Eagles. Oct 01, 2024
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings of the Royal Society B - The hawk�dove game in a sexually reproducing species explains a colourful polymorphism of an endangered bird. Jul 17, 2024
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services - Wildlife Damage Management Technical Series - Hawks and Owls. Mar 01, 2024
Add new Web site: The Raptor Trust - Hawk. Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Hawk. Sep 12, 2023
Article revised and updated. Jan 04, 2022
Add new Web site: World Animal Foundation - Hawk Fact Sheet. Mar 07, 2016
Add new Web site: The Raptor Trust - Hawk Facts. Feb 12, 2016
Add new Web site: Easy Science For KIDS - Hawk Bird. Sep 03, 2015
Added video. May 26, 2015
Added images of Cooper's, marsh, red-shouldered, rough-legged, and sharp-shinned hawks. Nov 25, 2009
Added new Web site: Animal Planet - Hawk. Apr 14, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - Hawk. May 21, 2008
Article revised. Sep 09, 2005
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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