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Buteo albigula (White-throated Hawk)

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-throated hawk, Buteo albigula, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which includes the eagles, hawks and Old World vultures. In British usage it would be called a buzzard rather than a true hawk.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.77387
EDGE Score: 1.3281
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.12 lbs (508 g)
Female Weight [1]  1.285 lbs (583 g)
Male Weight [1]  433 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  34.6 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [2]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  40 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 12 months
Clutch Size [1]  2
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [3]  83
Snout to Vent Length [1]  16 inches (41 cm)
Wing Span [4]  37 inches (.93 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Aphrastura spinicauda (Thorn-tailed Rayadito)[4]
Spinus barbatus (Black-chinned Siskin)[4]
Troglodytes aedon (House Wren)[4]
Turdus falcklandii (Austral Thrush)[4]
Veniliornis lignarius (Striped Woodpecker)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Accipiter bicolor (Bicolored Hawk)2
Buteo ventralis (Rufous-tailed Hawk)1
Glaucidium nana (Austral Pygmy Owl)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Buechley 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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