Photograph of a red-tailed hawk perched on a round metal railing covered with a rusty patina with two out of focus large gray utility lines and a blue sky in the background. The railing is horizontal but the utility lines (one below the railing and one above) angle slightly downward to the right. The hawk is facing forward but has its head turned to the right in profile. The hawk's chest is brightly highlighted, but its right side is in shadow. Red-tailed hawks have white bellies and chests with brown mottling across the waist, rust-red tails with a white and dark barred underside, brown back, wing, and head feathers with white markings, white underwings with dark barring and markings, dark eyes, black beaks with a yellow nostril, yellow legs and feet with long, sharp, black talons.