Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Dutch:
Langsnavelwouw, Nieuwguinese wespendief
Common Names in English:
Grenada Hook-Billed Kite, Cuban, hook-billed kite, Long-tailed Buzzard, Long-tailed Honey Buzzard, Long-tailed Honey-buzzard
Common Names in French:
Bondrée à longue queue, Milan bec-en-croc
Common Names in German:
Langschnabelweih, Langschwanzweih
Common Names in Japanese:
オナガハチクマ, カギハシトビ
Common Names in Spanish:
Gavil, Gavilán pico gancho
Common Names in unspecified:
Cuba Hook-Billed Kite, Grenada Hook-Billed Kite, Hook-Billed Kite
Description
Physical Description
Adult Black Phase : Face : Cere: greenish-yellow Eye Color: whitish Lores : orange bare spot Bill: dark Shape : heavy, deeply hooked Legs : Leg Color: yellow Tail: banded with pale gray and black.Adult Female: Bill: Shape: long hook Size: large Neck: Collar : reddish barred Body: Upperparts: reddish with white barring Tail: banded with pale gray and black.Adult Gray Phase: Face: Cere: greenish-yellow Eye Color: whitish Lores: orange bare spot Bill: dark Shape: heavy, deeply hooked Body: Underparts: barred with gray and white Upperparts: slaty Legs: Leg Color: yellow Tail: banded with pale gray and black.Adult Male: Bill: Shape: long hook Size: large Body: Upperparts: dark, heavily barred Tail: banded with pale gray and black.Adult Rufous Phase: Head : Crown: blackish Face: Cere: greenish-yellow Color: gray Eye Color: whitish Lores: orange bare spot Bill: dark Shape: heavy, deeply hooked Body: Mantle: dark brown Underparts: broadly barred with dark rufous and buffy-white Legs: Leg Color: yellow Tail: banded with pale gray and black.Immature: Face: Cere: greenish-yellow Eye Color: whitish Lores: orange bare spot Bill: dark Shape: heavy, deeply hooked Neck: Collar: white Body: Underparts: white, sometimes barred with blackish Upperparts: blackish brown Legs: Leg Color: yellow Tail: banded with pale gray and black.
Size/Age/Growth
About 16 inches long, with a wingspan of 34 to 37 inches. Adults weigh about 9.8 ounces .
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical deciduous forests, gallery forests, montaine evergreen forests • Maximum Elevation: 2,800 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,028 meters (0 to 9,934 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
- 14.3 Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations [more info]
Biology
Reproduction
- Number of Broods: 1
Migration
Nonmigratory
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. 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
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Falconimorphae
()
- Seebohm, 1890
- Order:
Falconiformes
()
- Sharpe, 1874
- Suborder:
Accipitres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Infraorder:
Falconides
()
- Sharpe, 1874
- Parvorder:
Accipitrida
()
- Superfamily:
Accipitroidea
()
- Vieillot, 1816
- Family:
Accipitridae
()
- Vieillot, 1816
- Subfamily:
Accipitrinae
()
- Genus:
Chondrohierax
()
- Lesson, 1843
- Specific name:
uncinatus
- (Garnot) 1828
- Scientific name: - Chondrohierax uncinatus (Temminck, 1822) (Garnot) 1828
- Specific name:
uncinatus
- (Garnot) 1828
- Genus:
Chondrohierax
(
- Subfamily:
Accipitrinae
(
- Family:
Accipitridae
(
- Superfamily:
Accipitroidea
(
- Parvorder:
Accipitrida
(
- Infraorder:
Falconides
(
- Suborder:
Accipitres
(
- Order:
Falconiformes
(
- Superorder:
Falconimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Chondrohierax uncinatus (Temminck, 1822) • Henicopernis longicauda • Henicopernis longicauda (Garnot) , 1828 • Henicopernis longicauda (Garnot, 1828)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996
Similar Species
Zone-Tailed Hawk, Crane Hawk
Members of the genus Chondrohierax
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. uncinatus (Grenada Hook-Billed Kite) · C. uncinatus mirus (Grenada Hook-Billed Kite) · C. uncinatus uncinatus (Hook-Billed Kite) · C. uncinatus wilsonii (Cuba Hook-Billed Kite) · C. wilsonii (Cuban Kite)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 610.
- Annotated CITES Appendices and Reservations CITES, WCMC url p. 69.
- 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.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 102, p. 103, p. 109, p. 110, p. 111, p. 127, p. 758, p. 778, p. 781, p. 792.
- Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1955 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 300, p. 332.
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. London: The Club, 1893- url p. 148.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 88 1941 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 110, p. 256, p. 298, p. 310, p. 351, p. 39, p. 39.
- 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. 29, p. 31.
- 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. 102, p. 802.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 200, p. 285.
- Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 116, p. 128, p. 165.
- 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. 133, p. 169, p. 170, p. 98.
- Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 42, p. 27.
- Contents and index to volume 12, numbers 1 to 19, Zoological series / Wilfred H. Osgood. 12 1929 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1929. url p. 507.
- Field book of birds of the Panama Canal Zone; a description on the habits, call notes and songs of the birds of the Panama Canal Zone, for the purpose of identifying them. Many of these birds are also common in Central and South America. By Bertha Bement Sturgis; with over 100 illustrations, colour plates, pen-and-ink sketches, and a map of the Panama Canal Zone. London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1928. url , .
- Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 516, p. 525, p. 557.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Ecuador / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, c1993. url p. 105.
- Ornithological gazetteer of the Guianas / Lorain Stephens and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1985. url p. 107, p. 108.
- 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. 505.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 600.
- Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 10.
- 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. 602.
- The birds of the Santa Marta region of Colombia: a study in altitudinal distribution. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1922 url , .
- University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 17 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 636.
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 308, p. 37, p. 37.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2009. Chondrohierax uncinatus. 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 10, 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, Hawk Migration Association of North America - HawkCount
- Avian Knowledge Network, Project FeederWatch
- Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
- Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
- 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: 8442
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-202240
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2498402
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175449
- IUCN ID: 200200
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNKC03010
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13358
Footnotes
- Mean = 257.900 meters (846.129 feet), Standard Deviation = 564.700 based on 519 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
