White-tailed Hawk
Geranoaetus albicaudatus - Buse à queue blanche
Systematics
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Order:
Accipitriformes
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Family:
Accipitridés
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Genus:
Geranoaetus
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Species:
albicaudatus
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 61 cm
- Wingspan: 118 à 143 cm.
- Weight: 880 à 1235 g
Geographic range
Identification
White-tailed Hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) is a species of bird in the Accipitridae family.
Subspecific information 3 subspecies
- Geranoaetus albicaudatus albicaudatus (s South America)
- Geranoaetus albicaudatus hypospodius (s Texas. USA. to n Colombia and nw Venezuela)
- Geranoaetus albicaudatus colonus (Netherlands Antilles, n South America)
Foreign names
- Buse à queue blanche,
- Busardo coliblanco,
- gavião-de-rabo-branco,
- Weißschwanzbussard,
- fehérszárnyú ölyv,
- Witstaartbuizerd,
- Poiana graduata,
- vitstjärtad vråk,
- Hvithalevåk,
- myšiak hrdzavoplecí,
- káně pestrá,
- Rustskuldret Musvåge,
- kaktushiirihaukka,
- aligot cuablanc,
- aguja białosterna,
- garspārnu klijāns,
- Белохвостый канюк,
- オジロノスリ,
- 白尾鵟,
- 白尾鵟,
Habitat
Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude ; Grassland : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Threats - protection
IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
in the Wild
Near
threatened
threatened
Not
evaluated
evaluated
EX
EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
NE
Sources of information
- Hawks, Eagles and Falcons of North America, Paul A. Johnsgard
- All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- What Bird-The ultimate Bird Guide, Mitchell Waite
- Wikipédia, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
- IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Aegotheliformes
- Anseriformes
- Apodiformes
- Apterygiformes
- Bucerotiformes
- Caprimulgiformes
- Cariamiformes
- Casuariiformes
- Charadriiformes
- Ciconiiformes
- Coliiformes
- Columbiformes
- Coraciiformes
- Cuculiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Falconiformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Nyctibiiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
- Otidiformes
- Passeriformes
- Pelecaniformes
- Phaethontiformes
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Piciformes
- Podargiformes
- Podicipediformes
- Procellariiformes
- Psittaciformes
- Pterocliformes
- Rheiformes
- Sphenisciformes
- Steatornithiformes
- Strigiformes
- Struthioniformes
- Suliformes
- Tinamiformes
- Trogoniformes