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) [XC595922]
by Mauricio Cuellar Ramirez (@Birding.travel) from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (call)
Slate-colored Hawk (Buteogallus schistaceus) [XC439634]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
Previously placed in Buteogallus. Forms superspecies with Plumbeous Hawk (Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea), with which it has been considered conspecific.