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Featured Article: Crane Hawk
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Photo by lior kislev
Chino,Otawaio river, Loreto, Peru, February 2010
Geranospiza caerulescens

Adults from eastern South America have the barred underside, buffy to orange or rufous in the pale part of the tail, and pale eyes. Birds from Amazonian Brazil to Peru and Colombia have solid blue-grey underparts and red eyes with white tail bands. Birds from Central America to western Colombia are much darker with unbarred underside and red eyes; many have darker red legs than seen further east and south but in Mexico legs can be yellow (might indicate younger birds); in some areas they have orange-buffy bands on the dark tail, in the rest white.

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