Buteo platypterus

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• Description
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, montaine evergreen forests, tropical deciduous forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
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Biology

Diet

Primarily: Small Mammals. Lesser Quantities of: Reptiles or Amphibians Birds Insects

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Clutch Size: 2-3
• Length of Incubation : 28-32 days
• Days to Fledge : 35
• Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Buteo platypterus (Vieillot, 1823)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Members of the genus Buteo

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 49 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. albicaudatus (Sennett's White-Tailed Hawk) · B. albicaudatus albicaudatus (White-Tailed Hawk) · B. albicaudatus hypospodius (White-Tailed Hawk) · B. albigula (White-Throated Hawk) · B. albonotatus (Band-Tailed Black Hawk) · B. albonotatus albonotatus (Band-Tailed Black Hawk) · B. archeri (Archer's Buzzard) · B. augur (Augur Buzzard) · B. auguralis (African Red-Tailed Buzzard) · B. brachypterus (Madagascar Buzzard) · B. brachyurus (Short-Tailed Buzzard) · B. brachyurus brachyurus (Short-Tailed Buzzard) · B. buteo (Western Steppe-Buzard) · B. galapagoensis (Galápagos Hawk) · B. hemilasius (Upland Buzzard) · B. jamaicensis (Red-Tailed (Harlan) Hawk) · B. jamaicensis buteo (Red-Tailed (Harlan) Hawk) · B. lagopus (American Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. lagopus pallidus (Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. leucorrhous (White-Rumped Hawk) · B. lineatus (Red-Shouldered Buzzard) · B. lineatus alleni (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus elegans (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus extimus (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus lineatus (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus texanus (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. magnirostris (Large-Billed Hawk) · B. magnirostris magnirostris (Roadside Hawk) · B. magnirostris pucherani (Roadside Hawk) · B. nitidus (Shining Buzzard Hawk) · B. nitidus maxima (Gray Hawk) · B. nitidus maximus (Gray Hawk) · B. nitidus nitidus (Gray Hawk) · B. oreophilus (Forest Buzzard) · B. platypterus (Broad-Winged Buzzard) · B. platypterus platypterus (Broad-Winged Hawk) · B. poecilochrous (Gurner's Buzzard) · B. polyosoma (Red-Backed Hawk) · B. polyosoma polyosoma (Red-Backed Hawk) · (Ferruginous Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. ridgwayi (Hispaniolan Hawk) · B. rufinus (Long-Legged Buzzard) · B. rufofuscus (Jackal Buzzard) · B. rufofuscus rufofuscus (Jackal Buzzard) · B. socotraensis (Socotra Buzzard) · B. solitarius (Gruber's Hawk) · B. swainsoni (Swainson's Buzzard) · B. swainsonii (Swainson's Hawk) · B. ventralis (Red-Tailed Hawk)

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Buteo platypterus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Ontario Nest Records
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• New Brunswick Museum, NBM birds
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8609
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175366
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481930
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175365
• IUCN ID: 196528
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNKC19050
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178025

Footnotes

1. Mean = 200.460 meters (657.677 feet), Standard Deviation = 560.410 based on 20,000 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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