Common Names
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Common Names in Dutch:
Wegbuizerd
Common Names in English:
Large-Billed Hawk, Roadside Hawk
Common Names in French:
Buse à Gros Bec
Common Names in German:
Wegebussard
Common Names in Japanese:
オオハシノスリ
Common Names in Mayan Languages:
Chuy
Description
Physical Description
Adult : Head : paler gray Ear Tufts: white Face : Cere: bright orange-yellow Eye Color: pale yellow Lores : bright orange-yellow Body: Belly: rufous with whitish to buff coarse bars Breast: buffy-white, barred with with grayish Chest: paler gray Underparts: buffy white Upperparts: gray-brown Legs : Leg Color: bright orange-yellow Notes : Tibia is whitish to pale buff with sparse dark brown spots Wings: Shape : short, rounded Tail: gray-brown to rufous, banded with black Crissum: white.Immature: Head: pale gray streaked with buffy Ear Tufts: white Face: Cere: bright orange-yellow Eye Color: pale yellow Lores: bright orange-yellow Body: Belly: rufous with whitish to buff coarse bars Breast: brown, streaked with dusky Chest: paler gray Underparts: buffy white Upperparts: brown Legs: Leg Color: bright orange-yellow Notes: Tibia is whitish to pale buff with sparse dark brown spots Wings: Shape: short, rounded Tail: narrowly barred with blackish Crissum: white.
Size/Age/Growth
About 13 to 16 inches long, with a wingspan of 27 to 31 inches. Adults weigh about 24 ounces .
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical deciduous forests, gallery forests, river edge and river island forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, white sand forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 2,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).Mean = 312.340 meters (1,024.738 feet), Standard Deviation = 695.200 based on 1,469 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.5Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
3.5Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
14.6Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Biology
Migration
Migratory
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Birds
- Subclass:
Neornithes
()
- Gadow, 1893
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
()
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
()
- Bonaparte, 1854
- Albatrosses, Alcids
- Suborder:
Ciconii
()
-
- Infraorder:
Falconides
()
- Parvorder:
Accipitrida
()
- Family:
Accipitridae
()
- Vieillot, 1816
- Subfamily:
Accipitrinae
()
- Genus:
Buteo
()
- Lacépède, 1799
- Specific name:
magnirostris
- (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)
- Scientific name: - Buteo magnirostris (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)
- Specific name:
magnirostris
- (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)
- Genus:
Buteo
(
- Subfamily:
Accipitrinae
(
- Family:
Accipitridae
(
- Parvorder:
Accipitrida
(
- Infraorder:
Falconides
(
- Suborder:
Ciconii
(
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
(
- Subclass:
Neornithes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Buteo magnirostris (Gmelin) 1788
- Buteo magnirostris (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Broad-Winged Hawk, Red-Shouldered Hawk
Members of the genus Buteo
There are approximately 170 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
B. abbreviatus · B. albicaudatus (White-Tailed Hawk) · B. albicaudatus albicaudatus (White-Tailed Hawk) · B. albicaudatus colonus · B. albicaudatus hypospodius (White-Tailed Hawk) · B. albicaudatus sennetti · B. albigula (White-Throated Hawk) · B. albonotatus (Zone-Tailed Hawk) · B. albonotatus albonotatus · B. anceps · B. aquilinus · B. archeri · B. areophilus · B. augur (Augur Buzzard) · B. augur archeri · B. augur augur · B. auguralis (Red-Necked Buzzard) · B. borealis · B. brachypterus (Madagascar Buzzard) · B. brachyurus (Short-Tailed Hawk) · B. brachyurus albigula · B. brachyurus brachyurus · B. brachyurus fuliginosus · B. burmanicus · B. buteo (Common Buzzard) · B. buteo arrigonii · B. buteo bannermani · B. buteo burmanicus · B. buteo buteo · B. buteo harterti · B. buteo insularum · B. buteo japonicus · B. buteo menetriesi · B. buteo oshiroi · B. buteo pojana · B. buteo refectus · B. buteo rothschildi · B. buteo ssp · B. buteo toyoshimai · B. buteo vulpinus · B. buteo zimmermannae · B. cabanisii · B. calurus · B. canescens · B. cirtensis · B. conterminus · B. erythronotus · B. erythronotus simonsi · B. eximus · B. exsul · B. ferox · B. ferrugineus · B. fluviaticus · B. fuliginosus · B. galapagoensis (Galapagos Hawk) · B. hemilasius (Upland Buzzard) · B. hypospodius · B. jamaicensis (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis abeiticola · B. jamaicensis abieticola · B. jamaicensis alascensis (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis borealis (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis borealis; · B. jamaicensis buteo · B. jamaicensis calurus (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis costaricensis · B. jamaicensis fuertesi (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis fuertesii · B. jamaicensis fumosus · B. jamaicensis hadropus · B. jamaicensis harlani (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis jamaicensis (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis kemsiesi · B. jamaicensis krideri · B. jamaicensis kriderii (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis socorroensis · B. jamaicensis solitudinis · B. jamaicensis suttoni · B. jamaicensis umbrinus (Red-Tailed Hawk) · B. jamaicensis x · B. japonicus · B. lagopus (Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. lagopus johannis · B. lagopus kamtschatkensis (Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. lagopus lagopus (Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. lagopus menzbieri · B. lagopus pallidus (Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. lagopus sancti-johannis · B. lagopus sanctijohannae · B. lagopus sanctijohannis (Rough-Legged Hawk) · B. lagopus ssp · B. latissimus · B. leucocephalus · B. leucorrhous (White-Rumped Hawk) · B. leucurus · B. lineatus (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus alleni (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus elegans (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus extimus (Red-Shouldered Hawk) · B. lineatus lineatus (Red-Shouldered Hawk)
Bibliography
- Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
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Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. Buteo magnirostris. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 8, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen: Biologiezentrum Linz
- Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
- Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
- Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Bird Collection
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851541
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175387
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13851810
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175387
- IUCN ID: 49427
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 133900
