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.

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 (28)...)

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

Bicolored Hawk (Accipiter bicolor) [XC773396]
by Paul Driver from Cedral, Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica (call)

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:

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