Editing Red-tailed hawk (section)

=== Vocalization ===
The cry of the red-tailed hawk is a 2–3&nbsp;second, hoarse, rasping scream, variously transcribed as ''kree-eee-ar'', ''tsee-eeee-arrr'' or ''sheeeeee'',<ref name="Avian" /> that begins at a high pitch and slurs downward.<ref name= Ferguson-Lees/><ref name= Brown/><ref name="NY" /> This cry is often described as sounding similar to a steam whistle.<ref name="ADW" /><ref name= Brown/> The red-tailed hawk frequently vocalizes while hunting or soaring, but vocalizes loudest and most persistently in defiance or anger, in response to a predator or a rival hawk's intrusion into its territory.<ref name= Brown/><ref name=Avian/> At close range, it makes a croaking ''guh-runk'', possibly as a warning sound.<ref name="Oregon">{{cite web |title=Red-tailed hawk |department=Birds of prey cards |website=oregonzoo.org |place=Portland, OR |publisher=[[Oregon Zoo]] |url=http://www.oregonzoo.org/Cards/BirdsOfPrey/redtailedhawk.htm |access-date=16 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070806054238/http://www.oregonzoo.org/Cards/BirdsOfPrey/redtailedhawk.htm |archive-date=6 August 2007 }}</ref> 

Nestlings may give peeping notes with a "soft, sleepy quality" that give way to occasional screams as they develop, but those are more likely to be a soft whistle rather than the harsh screams of the adults. Their latter hunger call, given from 11 days (as recorded in Alaska) to  after fledgling (in California), is different, a two-syllabled, wailing ''klee-uk'' food cry exerted by the young when parents leave the nest or enter their field of vision.<ref name="Palmer" /><ref name="Hawk Trust">{{cite web |title=Red-tailed Hawk – ''Buteo jamaicensis'' |publisher=[[Hawk Conservancy Trust]] |url=http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/priors/redtail.shtml |access-date=5 June 2007 }}</ref> A strange mechanical sound "not very unlike the rush of distant water" has been reported as uttered in the midst of a sky-dance.<ref name="Palmer" /> A modified call of ''chirp-chwirk'' is given during courtship, while a low key, duck-like nasal ''gank'' may be given by pairs when they are relaxed.<ref name="Brown" />

The fierce, screaming cry of the adult red-tailed hawk is frequently used as a generic [[Bird of prey|raptor]] sound effect in Hollywood movies, television shows and other media, even if the bird featured is not a red-tailed hawk.<ref name=SDZoo>{{cite web |title=Red-Tailed Hawk |series=Animal Bytes |website=sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes |publisher=[[San Diego Zoo]] |url=http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-red_tailed_hawk.html |access-date=3 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call |date=2013-12-28 |df=dmy-all |magazine=[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]] |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/12/28/raptor_porn_the_ridiculous_proliferation_of_the_red_tail_call/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228012002/http://www.salon.com/2013/12/28/raptor_porn_the_ridiculous_proliferation_of_the_red_tail_call/ |archive-date=28 December 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hollywood's Voice of Choice |url=https://mdc.mo.gov/blogs/discover-nature-notes/hollywoods-voice-choice-0 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Missouri Department of Conservation |language=en}}</ref> It is especially used in depictions of the [[bald eagle]], which contributes to the [[List of common misconceptions#Birds|common misconception]] that it is a bald eagle cry; actual bald eagle vocalizations are far softer and more chirpy than those of a red-tailed hawk.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jessica |last=Robinson |date=2 July 2012 |title=Bald eagle: A mighty symbol, with a not-so-mighty voice |website=npr.org |publisher=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=156187375 |access-date=2019-08-23 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>