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Cuban Black Hawk - BirdForum Opus

Photo by mrmike
Cuba, January 2007
Buteogallus gundlachii

Identification

Length: 43–52 cm. Similar to Common Black Hawk. Differs in smaller size, overall browner plumage with conspicuous pale feather tips, larger white underwing patch, faint pale malar stripe, lack of rufous in wing panel and different vocalisations.

Distribution

Endemic to Cuba and Isle of Pines.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Common Black Hawk.

Habitat

Mainly in lowland near swamps, beaches and small islands, both in coastal forest and more open areas.

Behaviour

Diet

Food includes a variety of invertebrates and smaller vertebrates.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F & D Donsker (Eds). 2018. IOC World Bird List (v8.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.8.2. Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  3. Wiley, J.W.; Garrido, O.H. 2005. Taxonomic status and biology of the Cuban Black-hawk, Buteogallus anthracinus gundlachii (Aves: Acciptridae). The Journal of Raptor Research 39:351–364.

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