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The white-breasted hawk (Accipiter chionogaster) is a small hawk found from southern Mexico to Nicaragua.It is usually considered a subspecies of the sharp-shinned hawk by most taxonomists, including the American Ornithological Society, but the taxonomy is far from resolved, with some authorities considering the southern taxa to represent three separate species: white-breasted hawk (A ...
The taxonomy is far from resolved, with some authorities considering the southern taxa to represent three separate species: white-breasted hawk (A. chionogaster), plain-breasted hawk (A. ventralis), and rufous-thighed hawk (A. erythronemius). [3] The American Ornithological Society and some other checklists keep all four species conspecific. [4]
Grey-bellied hawk. Accipiter poliogaster (Temminck, 1824) eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, the two Guyanas, Suriname, eastern Ecuador, central and eastern Peru, Amazonian Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Paraguay and northeast Argentina: Size: Habitat: Diet: NT 1,000–10,000 [14] Sharp-shinned hawk. Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 1808
Grey-bellied hawk: Accipitridae: Accipiter poliogaster (Temminck, 1824) 158 Sharp-shinned hawk: Accipitridae: Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 1808: 159 White-breasted hawk: Accipitridae: Accipiter chionogaster (Kaup, 1852) 160 Plain-breasted hawk: Accipitridae: Accipiter ventralis Sclater, PL, 1866: 161 Rufous-thighed hawk: Accipitridae: Accipiter ...
"The hawk is a magnificent bird, soaring up on the warm air currents and rising above to gain a perspective over the whole landscape," he describes. "It delights me every time I see a hawk ...
The plain-breasted hawk (Accipiter ventralis) is a small hawk described from Venezuela to western Bolivia.It is usually considered a subspecies of the sharp-shinned hawk by most taxonomists, including the American Ornithological Society, but the taxonomy is far from resolved, with some authorities considering the southern taxa to represent three separate species: white-breasted hawk (A ...
Similarly, the very small south America tiny hawk and semicollared hawk were found to be only distantly related to species in Accipiter. They were moved to a newly erected genus Microspizias which together with Harpagus is placed in the subfamily Harpaginae.
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