Great Black-Hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
64 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest. From sea-level - 1,900 m.

Range (Guide)

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

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (68)...)

Great Black Hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) [XC590687]
by Jerome Fischer from Main Ridge Forest, Trinidad & Tobago (call)

Great Black Hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) [XC117428]
by Manuel Grosselet from PNN Chiribiquete, Solano, Caquet\u00e1, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

ridgwayi (Gurney Sr, 1884) - Mexico (central Sonora and southern Tamaulipas) south to western Panama.
urubitinga (Gmelin, 1788) - Eastern Panama, west of Andes south to western Ecuador, and east of Andes east to the Guianas, Trinidad and Tobago, and south through eastern Bolivia and Brazil to Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina (Tucum�n, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Great Black-Hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) - 10 files

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