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 soaring bird. Locality Murici Reserve, Alagoas State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 9 October 2008 3 years ago 32 sec 3.3 -
An adult perched on a branch and flying away Locality Pax Guest House, Tunapuna, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (Monotypic species)
Peter Fraser 19 July 2001 7 years ago 23 sec 3.2 -
A close-up of a bird perched. Locality ZooMAT, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas State, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 March 2009 3 years ago 25 sec 2.7 -
A bird soaring. Locality Serra de Baturité, Ceará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 2 October 2008 3 years ago 31 sec 2
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A soaring bird, from below, partly obscured by foliage.
Locality Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
philgunson 12 April 2009 4 years ago 3 -
Soaring bird seen from below.
Locality Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
philgunson 3 August 2008 4 years ago 3 -
A bird soaring, seen from below.
Locality Los Amigos Biological Station (CICRA), Madre de Dios Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Joe Tobias 2 October 2007 1 year ago 2.8 -
A bird perched.
Locality Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 6 August 1991 41 weeks ago 2.8 -
Front view of immature bird in flight.
Locality Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela
philgunson 3 years ago 2.8
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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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