Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay (B), USA, 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 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).
Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris) [XC443972]
by Leonardo Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez-Delgado from Tundayme (ECSA camp), Zamora Chinchipe, Colombia (song)
Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris) [XC436166]
by Victor Vanegas from Bogot\u00e1, Bogot\u00e1, Guatemala (call)
Subspecies
Sometimes placed in genus Rupornis, or alternatively in Asturina. Appears to be closely allied to Ridgway's Hawk (Buteo ridgwayi), Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) and Grey-lined Hawk (Buteo nitidus), all of which may be more closely tied to Leucopternis than to Buteo. Many more subspecies have been recognized: subspecies griseocauda includes argutus, direptor, xantusi and petersi; subspecies magnirostris includes insidiatrix and ecuadoriensis; subspecies occiduus includes inca; and subspecies pucherani includes gularis.
The following 12 subspecies are recognised:
griseocauda (Ridgway, 1874) - Mexico (southern from Colima, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, except Yucatán and Tabasco) south to north-western Costa Rica and western Panama (Chiriquí).
conspectus Peters, JL, 1913 - South-eastern Mexico (Tabasco and Yucatán Peninsula) and northern Belize.
gracilis Ridgway, 1885 - Cozumel I and Holbox I, near Yucatán (Mexico).
sinushonduri (Bond, J, 1936) - Bonacca I and Ruatan I, off Honduras.
petulans van Rossem, 1935 - South-western Costa Rica and Pacific slope of western Panama to R Tuira, and adjacent islands.
alius Peters, JL & Griscom, 1929 - San José and San Miguel, in Pearl Is (Gulf of Panama).
magnirostris (Gmelin, 1788) - Colombia south to western Ecuador, east to Venezuela and the Guianas, and south to Amazonian Brazil (R Madeira east to Atlantic coast).
occiduus Bangs, 1911 - Eastern Peru, western Brazil (south of Amazon, west of R Madeira) and northern Bolivia.
saturatus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1876) - Bolivia, through Paraguay and south-western Brazil (south-western Mato Grosso) to western Argentina (south to La Rioja).
nattereri (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1869) - North-eastern Brazil south to Bahia.
magniplumis (Bertoni, AW, 1901) - Southern Brazil, northern Argentina (Misiones) and adjacent Paraguay.
pucherani (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1855) - Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina (south to Buenos Aires Province).