Grey-bellied Goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster)

Other Names (World)
Grey-bellied Goshawk, Gray-bellied Goshawk, Grey-bellied Hawk, Gray-bellied Hawk

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
43 - 51 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1824)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 500 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina (B), Bolivia (B), Brazil (B), Colombia (B), Ecuador (B), French Guiana (B), Guyana (B), Paraguay (B), Peru (B), Suriname (B), Venezuela (B).

East of Andes from Colombia and north-eastern Ecuador (perhaps only migrants), southern Venezuela and the Guianas south through Brazil (except north-east), eastern Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay to northern Argentina (Misiones); not recorded between R Negro and R Madeira in western Amazonia.

Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 10,000 (2010).

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (22)...)

Grey-bellied Hawk (Accipiter poliogaster) [XC76107]
by Dan Lane from Miracatu, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil (song)

Grey-bellied Hawk (Accipiter poliogaster) [XC351410]
by id from Irine\u00f3polis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Birds in the very distinctive immature plumage formerly classified as separate species, Accipiter pectoralis.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Grey-bellied Goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster) - 10 files

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