Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador (B), El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (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 2,000,000 (2010).
White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) [XC15379]
by Juan Mazar Barnett from General location in Beni Department, Bolivia (alarm call)
White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) [XC696178]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Guadalupe Hidalgo, Soledad Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico (call, flight call)
Subspecies
Closely allied to Galapagos Hawk (Buteo galapagoensis), with which forms superspecies, possibly also including Variable Hawk (Geranoaetus polyosoma), which present species may replace at lower altitudes, and Puna Hawk (Buteo poecilochrous).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
hypospodius (Gurney Sr, 1876) - South-central USA (southern Texas) and north-western Mexico (Sonora) to northern Colombia and north-western Venezuela.
colonus (von Berlepsch, 1892) - Eastern Colombia east to Surinam (except north-western Venezuela), and south to Amazon, eastern from at least Manaus to Atlantic coast; Aruba, Curaí§ao, Bonaire and Trinidad.
albicaudatus (Vieillot, 1816) - Extreme south-eastern Peru and southern Brazil (southern from Mato Grosso, Goiás and Bahia) through northern and eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay to northern and central Argentina (south to Río Negro).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet