Red tail

Red tail

The term red tail may refer to the following animals:

*Red-tailed Hawk ("Buteo jamaicensis"), a North American bird of prey
*Red-tailed boa ("Boa constrictor"), a Central American snake
*Redtail catfish ("Phractocephalus hemioliopterus"), a South American freshwater fish
*Red-tailed black shark or Red-tailed shark ("Epalzeorhynchos bicolor"), a common aquarium freshwater fish native to Thailand
*Red-tailed Black Cockatoo ("Calyptorhynchus banksii"), a cockatoo native to Australia
*Red-tailed Tropicbird ("Phaëthon rubricauda"), a seabird
*Red-tailed Sportive Lemur ("Lepilemur ruficaudatus"), a primate native to Madagascar

The term may also refer to:
*Redtail Nature Awareness, a nature based camp in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada
* A member of the Tuskegee Airmen (the popular name for the 332d Fighter Group), a unit of African American fighter pilots during World War II
*Redtail, a cat from Erin Hunter's Warriors series


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