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Buteo brachyurus (Short-tailed Hawk)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The short-tailed hawk (Buteo brachyurus) is an American bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles and Old World vultures. As a member of the genus Buteo, it is not a true hawk and thus also referred to as a "buteo" or (outside North America) "buzzard". The white-throated hawk (B. albigula) is a close relative and was formerly included in the species B. brachyurus.
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Infraspecies

Buteo brachyurus brachyurus
Buteo brachyurus fuliginosus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
8
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.52712
EDGE Score: 1.26048
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Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  2
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  2,000,000
Incubation [6]  34 days
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [8]  83
Snout to Vent Length [2]  16 inches (41 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Wing Span [6]  37 inches (.93 m)
Adult Weight [2]  1.12 lbs (508 g)
Female Weight [5]  1.285 lbs (583 g)
Male Weight [5]  422 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  38.2 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Generalist
Wintering Geography [3]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [3]  Generalist
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [4]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [4]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  80 %
Female Maturity [2]  1 year 12 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Agelaius phoeniceus (Red-winged Blackbird)[9]
Coccyzus americanus (Yellow-billed Cuckoo)[9]
Muscicapa striata (Blackpoll Warbler)[9]
Sturnella magna (Eastern Meadowlark)[9]
Vireo griseus (White-eyed Vireo)[9]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 5Meyer. 2002. The Short-tailed Hawk. In The Birds of North America, No. 674 Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Jetz 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
♦ 8Buechley 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
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
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