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Photo by Roy Halpin
Near Sacha Lodge, Amazon Basin, Ecuador, July 2004

Harpagus bidentatus

[edit] Identification

34cm.

• Grey head
• White throat which has a dark central stripe (except in darkest individuals where throat is dark)
• Rufous breast band
• Lower breast barred
• Dark tail, tipped white and with 3 whitish bands
• Red iris (in the southern and south-eastern part of its range, some birds have yellow iris!)
• Yellow legs
• Two horny teeth on the cutting edges of the upper mandible

Photo by Steve G
Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad, May 2006

[edit] Similar Species

Roadside Hawk has yellow eyes and lack the dark central throat stripe

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America.

Breeds in Guerrero, Veracruz and Oaxaca in southern Mexico and through Central America from Guatemala to Panama. In South America breeds from Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia and southern Brazil.

Resident.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• H. b. fasciatus:

• South-eastern Mexico to western Colombia and western Ecuador

• H. b. bidentatus:

• Eastern Colombia and Ecuador through Amazonia to south-eastern Brazil

Immature
Photo by Paul Kingsnorth
Mindo, Ecuador

[edit] Habitat

Lowland rainforest, forest edge and secondary-growth woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes reptiles, small birds & large insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Birdforum thread discussing this species
3. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

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