Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)

Grey-bellied Goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster) - HBW 2, p. 145

French: Autour à ventre gris German: Graubauchhabicht Spanish: Azor Ventrigrís
Other common names: Grey bellied Hawk

Taxonomy: Falco poliogaster Temminck, 1824, São Paulo, Brazil.
Birds in the very distinctive immature plumage formerly classified as separate species, A. pectoralis. Monotypic.

Distribution: E of Andes from Colombia and NE Ecuador (perhaps only migrants), S Venezuela and the Guianas S through Brazil (except NE), E Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay to N Argentina (Misiones); not recorded between R Negro and R Madeira in W Amazonia.