Common Black Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) [XC335894]
by Leonardo Guzman Hernandez from Metap\u00e1n, Santa Ana, Nicaragua (song)
Common Black Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) [XC297354]
by Abizai Chinchilla from , Honduras (song)
Subspecies
Buteogallus anthracinus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Common Black-Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) and Cuban Black Hawk (Buteogallus gundlachii) following AOU (2007). Mangrove Black-Hawk (Buteogallus subtilis) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993; Stotz et al. 1996) is now lumped with Common Black-Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) following SACC (2007) and AOU (2008).
Taxonomy controversial. Sometimes considered to include Mangrove Black-Hawk (Buteogallus subtilis). Subspecies gundlachii may be valid species. Subspecies gundlachii and especially utilensis sometimes included in nominate. Populations of St Vincent (Lesser Antilles) and south-western USA sometimes awarded separate subspecies, respectively cancrivora and micronyx. Forms superspecies with Mangrove Black-Hawk (Buteogallus subtilis).
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
anthracinus (Deppe, 1830) - South-western and southern USA (southern Utah and Arizona to Texas) through Central America to Panama and northern Colombia, then along Caribbean coast to north-western Guyana, Trinidad and St Vincent (Lesser Antilles); penetrates inland to Huila, Colombia.
utilensis Twomey, 1956 - Cancún I and Cozumel I, off Yucatán; Utila I and Guanaja I, in Gulf of Honduras; and perhaps other adjacent islands.
rhizophorae Monroe, 1963 - Pacific coast of El Salvador and Honduras; probably from extreme south-western Mexico (Chiapas) locally to Nicaragua.
bangsi (Swann, 1922) - Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama, including Pearl Is.
subtilis (Thayer & Bangs, 1905) - Pacific coast of Colombia (and offshore islands), Ecuador and adjacent extreme northern Peru (Tumbes).
gundlachii (Cabanis, 1855) - Cuba and Isle of Pines.