Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Zone-tailed Hawk (Buteo albonotatus) - HBW 2, p. 183
French: Buse à queue barrée
German: Mohrenbussard
Spanish: Busardo Aura
Taxonomy: Buteo albonotatus Kaup (ex G. R. Gray), 1847, Mexico.
Populations from E Panama and South America sometimes awarded separate race, abbreviatus, but not generally accepted. Monotypic.
Distribution: Range disjunct or incompletely known: NW & NC Mexico (from Baja California) and adjacent USA, S through Yucatán (not recorded in Belize) and Guatemala (including W highlands) to Panama, including Pearl Is. In South America, distribution incompletely encircles Amazon Basin: W Ecuador; C Peru, near Lima; N Colombia (Sta Marta Mts to Magdalena) E through N & SE Venezuela to the Guianas and Trinidad; N, E & SE Brazil (from Amazon Delta and I de Marajó, S and E through Ceará, Pernambuco, Alagoas and Bahia to Paraná) W through Paraguay to N & E Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz).
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A juvenile bird stretching its wind and leg, perched on a branch Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 January 2005 5 years ago 48 sec 4.6 -
A juvenile bird standing and preening on a high branch Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 January 2005 5 years ago 51 sec 4.3 -
soaring in circles; ID unsure (Broad-winged Hawk?) Locality Los Tarrales Private Reserve, Suchitepéquez Department, Guatemala (Monotypic species)
Juan Sanabria 1 October 2012 14 weeks ago 24 sec 3.8 -
An adult at it's nest. First breeding record for Suriname! Locality Weg naar Zee, Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 19 February 2011 1 year ago 27 sec 3.8 -
An adult in it's nest, and then the view of the large tree used. First breeding record for Suriname! Locality Weg naar Zee, Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 19 February 2011 1 year ago 31 sec 3.8 -
A soaring bird flying with Turkey Vultures to confuse possible prey Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 September 2006 5 years ago 32 sec 3.5
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A close-up.
Locality ZooMAT, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 March 2009 3 years ago 3.8 -
An adult flying
Locality Hacienda La Zuliana, Campo Boscán, Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela
kperezleon 3 June 2007 4 years ago 3.7 -
A soaring bird.
Locality Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
philgunson 12 April 2009 4 years ago 3.6 -
This juvenile zone-tailed hawk was swooping down scaring off all the ruddy ground doves and causing the southern lapwings to sou
Locality Orange Field, Orange Valley, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Sanjiv Parasram 15 May 2010 3 years ago 3.4 -
A bird perched.
Locality Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 6 August 1991 45 weeks ago 3.2 -
gavião do rabo barrado
Locality Minas Gerais State, Brazil
marco aurelio martins de ... 11 April 2009 3 years ago 3
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Calls from a bird in flight. Locality Pima County, Arizona, USA (United States)
(Monotypic species)
Scott Olmstead 22 September 2009 3 years ago 3
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