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Red Shoulder Hawk mating season is underway in our parks! These beautiful hawks have been observed recently at Stillwater Prairie Reserve, Hobart Urban Nature Preserve and Charleston Falls Preserve performing their territorial breeding calls and flights! Red-shouldered Hawks are monogamous. Pairs usually remain in the same territories and reuse the same nest-sites for many years. Courtship lasts about 18 days, and during this time “circling flight” and “sky-dancing” displays are performed. In th