red-shoulder

Updated: July 9, 2026

A Red-shouldered Hawk wailed in the woods; the Rabbit heard that and every other sound, but the Red-shoulder is not dangerous, and he knew it. A large Hawk with red tail circled silently over the glade, and the Rabbit froze on the instant. That same red tail was the mark of a dreaded foe. How well Bunny had learned to know them all!

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned