Most red-tailed hawks prey on small mammals such as mice, voles, shrews, voles, squirrels, chipmunks, rats, rabbits opossums, muskrats, cats, skunks and bats. Other prey include snakes, turtles, frogs, lizards, salamanders, toads, ducks, bobwhites, crows, woodpeckers, starlings, doves, red-winged blackbirds, kingfishers, robins, owls, crawfish, centipedes, spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, earthworms and fish.
It strains the imagination to envision you and I and the red-tailed hawk as strict herbivores:
"Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground - everything that has the breath of life in it - I give every green plant for food.' And it was so." (Genesis 1:29-30 NIV)
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