Buteo albonotatus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: gallery forests, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests, river edge and river island forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 2,800 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 2,809 meters (0 to 9,216 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   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
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Biology

Diet

Mostly:

Reptiles or Amphibians

Lesser Quantities of: Birds

Reproduction

• Clutch Size: 1-3
• Length of Incubation : 35 days
• Days to Fledge : ?
• Number of Broods: ?

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Turkey Vulture, Common Black 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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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 486.
• A history of North American birds / by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905. url p. 272.
• A synopsis of the Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey) comprising species and subspecies described up to 1920, with their characters and distribution. London, Wheldon & Wesley, 1921-22. url p. 83.
• Annotated CITES Appendices and Reservations CITES url p. 66.
• Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons. 21 1984 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url table 2 , p. 16.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url , , .
• Birds of northeastern Peru / Melvin A. Traylor. 35 1958 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 91.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 108, p. 212, p. 213, p. 275, p. 277, p. 279, p. 44, p. 756.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 77 1934 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 429.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. 13 1949 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1949. url p. 110, p. 154, p. 155.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 163.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 68.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 109.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 117, p. 802.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 368.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 116, p. 241.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 132, p. 242, p. 57, p. 83.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 37.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 381.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 217, p. 428, p. 480, p. 499.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 6 1986 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 12.
• List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum. London: Printed by the order of the Trustees, 1848-1856. url p. 36.
• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 13 1984 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 241, p. 268, p. 48.
• On some new or little-known species of accipitres in the collection of the Norwich Museum / by Philip Lutley Sclater. S.l.: s.n., 1858 url p. 263.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Colombia / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1997. url p. 511.
• Ornithological synonyms. By the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. .. Ed. by Mrs. Hugh E. Strickland and Sir W. Jardine. .. Vol. I. Accipitres. London, J. Van Voorst, 1855. url p. 31.
• Our living resources: a report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems / [edited by], Edward T. LaRoe. .. [et al.]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Biological Service, 1995. url p. 502, p. 530.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 101, p. 101.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 446, p. 651.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 348, p. 348, p. 356, p. 472.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 150 1965 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 198, index, page 467.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 11.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 78, p. 78.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 119, p. 310, p. 438, p. 523.
• The Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara tar seeps, northwestern Peru. 1973. url .
• The birds of El Salvador, by Donald R. Dickey and A. J. Van Rossem. 23 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 118, p. 27, p. 48.
• The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1979. url p. 89.
• Threatened wildlife of the United States. Washington, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]1973. url p. 199.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 8 1936 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 127, p. 243, p. 289, p. 364, p. 393, p. 446, p. 46, p. 466.
• Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press url p. 263, p. 263.
• Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History) / by R.L.M. Warren & C.J.O. Harrison. London: BM(NH), 1966-1973. url p. 10.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 11 1959 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 457, p. 552, p. 675.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 33, p. 33.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Buteo albonotatus. 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 30, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network, Project FeederWatch
• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UCLA-Dickey Bird Collection
• , Bird specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175368
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481930
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175368
• IUCN ID: 196513
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNKC19090
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13366

Footnotes

1. Mean = 923.980 meters (3,031.430 feet), Standard Deviation = 673.140 based on 1,680 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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