Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis
This is Amelia. She's a Red-tailed Hawk that was found on the ground after falling out of her nest. She ended up with a maggot infestation in her ear canal. The maggots ate through her ear canal and into her eye socket, which caused permanent hearing and sight loss!
Due to her limitations, she cannot be released into the wild and is now an educational ambassador for Christine’s Critters, which is a non-profit group that rehabilitates birds of prey.
The red-tailed hawk is a bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk," though it rarely preys on standard sized chickens. It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common buteos in North America.
