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| − | ==Identification==
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| − | Photographed: Playa Blanca, Panama.
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| − | The adult Mangrove Black Hawk is 43-53cm long and weighs around 930g. It has very broad wings, and is mainly black with an extensive brownish cast to the upper-wings. The short tail is black with a single broad white band and a white tip. The bill is black and the legs and cere are yellow.
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| − | Sexes are similar, but immature birds are dark brown above with spotting and streaks. Their underparts are buff to whitish with dark blotches, and the tail has a number of black and white bars.
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| − | This species differs from the Common Black Hawk mainly by its shorter wings and browner upperparts.
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| − | ==Distribution==
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| − | The Mangrove Black Hawk is a resident breeding bird in the tropical New World on the Pacific coast and on islands from southern Mexico south through Central America.
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| − | ==Taxonomy==
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| − | Recently split from Common Black Hawk. Apparently distinguishable only by habitat and range.
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| − | The Mangrove Black Hawk (Buteogallus subtilis) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the Common Black Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus).
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| − | ==Habitat==
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| − | This is a mainly coastal bird of Pacific mangrove swamps, estuaries and adjacent dry open woodland,
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| − | ==Behaviour==
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| − | It builds a large stick nest in a mangrove tree, and usually lays one dark-blotched whitish egg.
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| − | The Mangrove Black Hawk feeds mainly on crabs, but will also take small vertebrates and eggs. This species is often seen soaring, with occasional lazy flaps, and has a talon-touching aerial courtship display. The call of the Mangrove Black Hawk is a distinctive piping spink-speenk-speenk-spink-spink-spink.
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | *[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?si=+Buteogallus+subtilis&x=7&y=2&perpage=12&sort=1&cat=all&ppuser=&friendemail=email%40yourfriend.com&password= View more images of Mangrove Black Hawk in the gallery]
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