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[[Image:Barred_Hawk.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by Mark Harper<br />Location: Buenaventura, Ecuador]] | [[Image:Barred_Hawk.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo by Mark Harper<br />Location: Buenaventura, Ecuador]] | ||
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| + | 61cm. Slate black head, upperparts, and chest, underparts and wing-linings white with fine black barring, black, short, square tail with complete median white band, brown iris, yellow cere and legs. Juveniles similar with white scaling on wing-coverts. | ||
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==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
Found from [[Costa Rica]] and [[Panama]] south to [[Ecuador]] and [[Peru]]. | Found from [[Costa Rica]] and [[Panama]] south to [[Ecuador]] and [[Peru]]. | ||
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | Monotypic. | ||
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==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
| + | Canopy and edges of mountain forests. | ||
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==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| + | The diet includes snakes, frogs, large insects, crabs, occasionally mammals and birds. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Leucopternis+princeps}} | {{GSearch|Leucopternis+princeps}} | ||
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Leucopternis]] | [[Category:Birds]][[Category:Leucopternis]] | ||
Revision as of 13:52, 23 October 2008
- Leucopternis princeps
Identification
61cm. Slate black head, upperparts, and chest, underparts and wing-linings white with fine black barring, black, short, square tail with complete median white band, brown iris, yellow cere and legs. Juveniles similar with white scaling on wing-coverts.
Distribution
Found from Costa Rica and Panama south to Ecuador and Peru.
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Canopy and edges of mountain forests.
Behaviour
The diet includes snakes, frogs, large insects, crabs, occasionally mammals and birds.
