White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
53 - 60 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1816)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland seasonally wet / flooded grassland. From sea-level - 1,900 m, occasionally to 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)

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.

Population
Estimated population is 2,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (58)...)

White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) [XC53428]
by from Finca La Carbonera (canon del rio Toche), Tolima, Colombia (song)

White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) [XC385597]
by Ricardo Jos\u00e9 Mitidieri from Jim\u00e9nez, Lara, Venezuela (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, Cura��ao, Bonaire and Trinidad.
albicaudatus (Vieillot, 1816) - Extreme south-eastern Peru and southern Brazil (southern from Mato Grosso, Goi�s and Bahia) through northern and eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay to northern and central Argentina (south to R��o Negro).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) - 10 files

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