Bicolored Hawk (Accipiter bicolor)

Other Names (World)
Bicolored Hawk, Bicoloured Hawk, Bi-colored Hawk, Bi-coloured Hawk, Spotted Hawk

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
35 - 43 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1817)

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay (B), Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

Bicolored Hawk (Accipiter bicolor) [XC218136]
by Tom Lawrence from Palmichal area, Carabobo, Venezuela (call)

Bicolored Hawk (Accipiter bicolor) [XC40002]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Caetit\u00e9, state of Bahia, 5 Km south from Brejinho das Ametistas, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), Gundlach's Hawk (Accipiter gundlachi) and Chilean Hawk (Accipiter chilensis).

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

bicolor (Vieillot, 1817) - Southern Mexico (Yucat�n) to Amazonia and the Guianas, south to eastern Bolivia, and west of Andes south to north-western Peru (Lambayeque).
fidens Bangs & Noble, 1918 - Southern Mexico, north of Yucat�n, in Oaxaca and Veracruz.
pileatus (Temminck, 1823) - Brazil south of Amazonia (eastern Mato Grosso to southern Maranh�o and Cear�) and south to north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).
guttifer Hellmayr, 1917 - Brazil (western Mato Grosso) and Bolivia through Chaco of Paraguay to northern Argentina.
chilensis Philippi and Landbeck, 1864 - Central Chile and west-central Argentina to Tierra del Fuego.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bicolored Hawk (Accipiter bicolor) - 10 files

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