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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 International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 265 species of Accipitriformes distributed among four families. Among them is the family Cathartidae (New World vultures) which the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the Clements taxonomy , and BirdLife International 's Handbook of the Birds of the World place in its own ...
Rufous-breasted sparrowhawk, Accipiter rufiventris; Grey-bellied hawk, Accipiter poliogaster; Sharp-shinned hawk, Accipiter striatus; White-breasted hawk, Accipiter chionogaster; Plain-breasted hawk, Accipiter ventralis; Rufous-thighed hawk, Accipiter erythronemius; Astur Lacépède, 1799: Cooper's hawk, Astur cooperii; Gundlach's hawk, Astur ...
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]
Accipiter (/ æ k ˈ s ɪ p ə d ə r /) is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae. Most species are called sparrowhawks, but there are many sparrowhawks in other genera too, such as Tachyspiza. These birds are slender with short, broad, rounded wings and a long tail which helps them maneuver in flight.
This category is for Birds of Prey, which includes all bird taxa belonging to the orders Strigiformes, ... White-breasted hawk; White-throated hawk; Woodward's eagle; Z.
The Andean cock-of-the-rock is the national bird of Peru. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Peru. The avifauna of Peru has 1884 confirmed species, of which 118 are endemic, three have been introduced by humans, and 83 are rare or vagrants. An additional 26 species are hypothetical (see below).
Although the term "bird of prey" could theoretically be taken to include all birds that actively hunt and eat other animals, [4] ornithologists typically use the narrower definition followed in this page, [5] excluding many piscivorous predators such as storks, cranes, herons, gulls, skuas, penguins, and kingfishers, as well as many primarily ...