- Astur chilensis
Accipiter chilensis
Identification
Male 37-38 cm, female 41-42 cm. Sexes similar.
- Upperparts dark grey
- Crown may be darker, sometimes contrasting with paler cheeks
- Throat may have thin longitudinal dark stripes
- Underparts grey (paler than back) with whitish mottling or white and orange-brown barring on chest and abdomen
- Underwing coverts rufous
- Thighs rufous
- Undertail coverts white
- Tail with even width pale and dark bands: end is rounded
- Iris yellow
- Legs green yellow
- In flight: tail mostly held closed unless soaring which happens rarely
Juvenile - browner upperparts, cream fringes to feathers, pale chest and abdomen with longitudinal stripes.
Variation
Adults may have greyer or more orange underparts (vent still whitish).
Distribution
Chile, western Argentina and Tierra del Fuego.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
The Chilean Hawk was formerly included in Bicolored Hawk. However, status has changed back and forth a couple of times.
Habitat
Temperate forest to 2700m, hunting in shrubland, grassland or agricultural land.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists mostly of small birds, though large insects and rodents are also taken.
Breeding
Its nest is an oval platform built from twigs and sticks, placed in a tall tree. Two dull light bluish to off-white eggs are laid and incubated for 3 weeks.
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, M. Smith, and C. L. Wood. 2024. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2024. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2022. IOC World Bird List (v 12.2) DRAFT. Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.12.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Jaramillo, A. 2003. Birds of Chile. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117409
External Links
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