redtail

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail
noun European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins

From red + tail.

“I wish you would sit up and take a good look all around to make sure that Old Man Coyote and Reddy Fox and Redtail the Hawk and Black Pussy, that pesky Cat from Farmer Brown's, are nowhere about.” Peter obligingly sat up and looked this way and looked that way and looked the other way. — The Burgess Animal Book for Children, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

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