CLASS AVES

Grey Hawk

Animals Kingdom (Animalia)

• Chordates (Phylum Chordata)

• Vertebrates (Subphylum Vertebrata)

• Birds (Class Aves)

Gray Hawks are small for a hawk in the genus Buteo. Adults are all pale grey with thin white bars on underparts. Tail is banded black and white. Feeds on a variety of small animals, many lizards and small birds, as well as snakes, rodents and other small mammals, frogs, and large insects. Found in shrubby riparian woodland. Usually seen singly.