Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis) - HBW 2, p. 174
French: Buse roussâtre
German: Savannenbussard
Spanish: Busardo Sabanero
Taxonomy: Falco meridionalis Latham, 1790, Cayenne.
Often placed in monotypic genus Heterospizias, mainly due to longer legs and wings. Population of Paraguay, SE Brazil and Argentina has been awarded separate race, rufulus, but differs only in size, and not generally considered valid; Argentinian birds have alternatively been in equally dubious race australis. Monotypic.
Distribution: W Panama (Chiriquí) through tropical South America W of Andes to NW Peru, and E of Andes E to the Guianas and Trinidad, and S through Ecuador, E Peru, E Bolivia and Brazil to N Argentina (Tucumán, Córdoba and Santa Fe).
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An adult on a dead trunk Locality Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 5 years ago 25 sec 4.4 -
An adult on top of a termite mound and flying away Locality Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 6 September 2005 5 years ago 21 sec 4.3 -
First on the ground, then landing on a post Locality Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2011 16 weeks ago 34 sec 4.3 -
An adult on top of a termite mound Locality Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 6 September 2005 5 years ago 32 sec 4 -
A bird being harrassed by a couple of chalk-browed mockingbirds Locality Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2012 6 weeks ago 1 min 18 sec 4 -
A perched bird Locality Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2011 18 weeks ago 37 sec 4
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adulto con su presa
Locality Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia
povedano 2 years ago 4.7 -
An adult bird perched on a bank.
Locality Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia (Monotypic species)
Joe Tobias 7 September 2005 8 weeks ago 4.3 -
An immature perched on a fence-post
Locality Cojedes State, Venezuela
Dilia E. Garcia 23 August 2008 3 years ago 4.2 -
Perched
Locality Casanare Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 30 December 2011 17 weeks ago 4 -
A bird perched in a tree.
Locality Embiara Lodge, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Carmelo López 11 November 2011 17 weeks ago 4 -
A bird perching on the top of palm trunk
Locality Passo do Lontra, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 11 August 2010 28 weeks ago 4
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Two calls. Locality General Sampaio, Ceará State, Brazil
(Monotypic species)
Ciro Albano 17 July 2008 3 years ago 4 -
A bird calling from a perch near the river Locality Chaco National Park, Chaco Province, Argentina
Hernan Casañas-Seriema Na... 15 September 1998 2 years ago 3.5
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