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Buteo poecilochrous (puna hawk)

Synonyms: Geranoaetus polyosoma poecilochrous (homotypic)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.213 lbs (1.004 kg)
Female Weight [1]  2.575 lbs (1.168 kg)
Male Weight [1]  1.852 lbs (840 g)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  39 %
Clutch Size [2]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Andean wet puna Peru, Bolivia Neotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Cordillera Central páramo Ecuador, Peru Neotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Northern Andean páramo Ecuador, Colombia Neotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Cabot J and de Vries T (2003) Buteo polyosoma and Buteo poecilochrous are two distinct species. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 123:190-207
♦ 2Jetz 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
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
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