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White Tailed Hawk

14 January 2012 09:09 Filed in: Accipitridae Hawks Birds of Prey Brazil Rio de Janeiro Nests
White Tailed Hawk - Bute albicaudatus
Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Rio de Janeiro • Sep 2011

Bird name: White Tailed Hawk
Latin: Buteo albicaudatus
Other: Gavião-de-rabo-branco (Br) • Gavilán coliblanco, aguilucho alas largas (Es)
Family: Accipitridae • Hawks, Birds of Prey
Range: Americas: Texas to Argentina
Similar: Red-backed Hawk

We saw this pair of White-tailed Hawks attending chicks in a nest, in northern Rio de Janerio state. One was a light morph (above), the other a dark morph (below).

Below: Dark morph White-tailed Hawk, SE Brazil, Sep 2011
White Tailed Hawk - Bute albicaudatus

Below: Light morph White-tailed Hawk, seen from above, SE Brazil, Sep 2011
White Tailed Hawk - Bute albicaudatus

Below: White-tailed Hawk nest, SE Brazil, Sep 2011
White Tailed Hawk - Bute albicaudatus


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