The animal itself
Hawk vision resolves detail roughly eight times better than human, and they see ultraviolet, which makes rodent urine trails visible as glowing paths across a field.1 of 2 calendars · 390 searches a month
Hawk
The hawk is read as acting first and adjusting after. It appears in one of the two birth calendars we cover. The two are presented online as interchangeable, yet they name the same animal on only 17 days of 365 — 4.7% of the year.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Native American calendar
21 March – 19 April
Its zodiac sign
Aries
Only the Native American calendar assigns this one. Anyone born in these dates gets a different animal from the other system — the two agree on 4.7% of days →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Acting first and adjusting after — commitment before certainty.
Honoured in: Widely used as a messenger symbol across Plains and Southwestern nations; Egyptian association with Ra.
Counted across all 39 animals
Where the hawk sits
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
23rd
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
Both calendars are published online as though interchangeable. They are not, and the disagreement is the reason two sites can give you different animals for the same birthday. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Hawk is ranked 23 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.