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Buteo albicaudatus (White-tailed Hawk)

Synonyms: Geranoaetus albicaudatus (homotypic); Geranoaetus albicaudatus albicaudatus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-tailed hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) is a large bird of prey species found in tropical or subtropical environments across the Americas.
View Wikipedia Record: Buteo albicaudatus

Infraspecies

Buteo albicaudatus albicaudatus (Southern white-tailed hawk)
Buteo albicaudatus colonus
Buteo albicaudatus hypospodius (Northern white-tailed hawk)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.60051
EDGE Score: 2.02821
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [1]  40 %
Diet - Endothermic [1]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  10 %
Diet - Scavenger [1]  10 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %
Female Weight [2]  2.046 lbs (928 g)
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [3]  31 days
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [5]  80

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Calomys tener (delicate vesper mouse)[6]
Colinus virginianus (Northern Bobwhite)[7]
Lithobates pipiens (Northern Leopard Frog)[7]
Neotoma micropus (southern plains woodrat)[8]
Oligoryzomys nigripes (black-footed pygmy rice rat)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 2Haverschmidt, F. and GF Mees. 1994. Birds of Suriname. Vaco, Paramaribo, Surinam
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 5Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 6Granzinolli MA, & JC Motta-Júnior. 2006. Small mammal selection by the White-tailed Hawk in southeastern Brazil Wilson J. Ornithol. 118: 91–98
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Neotoma micropus, J. K. Braun and M. A. Mares, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 330, pp. 1-9 (1989)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0