Red-tailed hawk Red-tailed hawk The red-tailed hawk ("Buteo jamaicensis") is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. It is one of the most common members within the genus of "Buteo" in North America or worldwide. The red-tailed hawk is one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk," though it rarely preys on standard-sized chickens. The bird is sometimes also referred to as the red-tail for short, when the meaning is clear in context. Red-tailed hawks
Shaver Transportation Company steamboat business with two partners, Henry W. Corbett and A.S. Foster, both prominent members of the early business establishment in Portland, Oregon. They bought out Captain Edward Bureau and began doing business as the People's Freighting Company. Their first vessel was the steamboat "Manzanillo", which they put on the route down the Willamette and Columbia rivers from Portland to Clatskanie, Oregon. Shaver Transportation Company was known as the "Red Collar Line." The next two steamboats owned by the company after the "Manzanillo" were the "Sarah Dixon" (named after the mother of company founder James W. Shaver) and "G.W. Shaver," named