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Noun: redtail
  1. Dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail
    - red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
     
  2. European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
    - redstart

Derived forms: redtails

Type of: hawk, thrush

Part of: Buteo, genus Buteo, genus Phoenicurus, Phoenicurus

Encyclopedia: Redtail