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) [XC407262]
by Jerome Fischer from Sistemas de Trilhas do PPBio, Parque Nacional do Viru\u00e1, Caracara\u00ed, Roraima, Brazil (call)
Slate-colored Hawk (Buteogallus schistaceus) [XC383331]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru (call)
Subspecies
Previously placed in Buteogallus. Forms superspecies with Plumbeous Hawk (Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea), with which it has been considered conspecific.