Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)

Barred Hawk (Leucopternis princeps) - HBW 2, p. 168

French: Buse barrée German: Prinzenbussard Spanish: Busardo Azoreño

Taxonomy: Leucopternis princeps P. L. Sclater, 1865, Costa Rica.
Populations of Ecuador and Colombia have been assigned to separate race, zimmeri, on grounds of differences in size, but this is unsubstantiated. Monotypic.

Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama, and locally into W Colombia and N Ecuador on both sides of the Andes.