Other Scientific Names
Leucopternis schistacea [BirdLife International (2004)], Leucopternis schistacea [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Leucopternis schistacea [Stotz et al. (1996)]
Other Names (World)
Slate-colored Hawk, Slate-coloured Hawk
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Venezuela.
Amazonia, from south-eastern Colombia and south-western Venezuela south through eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru to northern and eastern Bolivia, and east to eastern French Guiana and central-northern Brazil.
 
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 100,000 (2010).
Slate-colored Hawk (Buteogallus schistaceus) [XC683970]
by Richard E. Webster from Bosque Vda Las Delicias - Piamonte, Cauca, Colombia (call)
Slate-colored Hawk (Buteogallus schistaceus) [XC225126]
by John V. Moore from La Selva lodge, Napo, Ecuador (call)
Subspecies
Previously placed in Buteogallus. Forms superspecies with Plumbeous Hawk (Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea), with which it has been considered conspecific.