The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated sucking mouthpart — to extract nectar from the flower's center.

The red-tailed hawk and the red-shouldered hawk aren’t the only types of hawks in New York that can be difficult to tell apart. The sharp-shinned hawk and Cooper’s hawk are also easily mistaken.

Although they’re one of the more notable types of hawks in Georgia, you can find the sharp-shinned hawk in many places in the ...