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Buteogallus urubitinga (Great Black-Hawk; Great Black Hawk)

Synonyms: Falco urubitinga
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The great black hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures. The great black hawk is a resident breeding bird in the tropical New World, from Mexico through Central America to Peru, Tobago and northern Argentina. It resembles the common black hawk, but is larger with a different call and tail pattern. This is a mainly coastal bird of forest and open woodland near water. It builds a large stick nest in a tree, and usually lays one dark-blotched whitish egg. \n* immature, Pantanal, Brazil \n* \n* South Brazil
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Infraspecies

Buteogallus urubitinga ridgwayi
Buteogallus urubitinga urubitinga

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.88984
EDGE Score: 1.93005
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.549 lbs (1.156 kg)
Female Weight [4]  2.751 lbs (1.248 kg)
Male Weight [4]  2.348 lbs (1.065 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [4]  17.2 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests, Mangroves
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests, Mangroves
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Frugivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  30 %
Diet - Endothermic [3]  20 %
Diet - Fish [3]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  10 %
Forages - Understory [3]  10 %
Forages - Ground [3]  40 %
Clutch Size [6]  1
Incubation [5]  40 days
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [7]  75
Snout to Vent Length [1]  24 inches (61 cm)

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Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Contracaecum caballeroi[8]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Contreras JR (1983) Notas sobre el peso de aves Argentinas. III. Historia Natural 3:95-96
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz 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
♦ 7Buechley 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
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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
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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