ABOUT THIS SPECIES
SHORT-TAILED HAWK – (Species Account Weblog #95)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Accipitriformes,
- FAMILY: Accipitridae,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Buteo brachyurus
The Brief-tailed Hawk is a smallish, broad-winged buteo with 2 distinct shade morphs. In flight, finest discipline marks are lengthy, broad wings with barely pointed and upturned ideas, grayish to whitish flight feathers exhibiting distinctly paler (whiter) space in primaries in comparison with secondaries. Grownup light-morph hen has dark-brown head and cheeks with contrasting white throat, which provides distinct impression of a darkish hood over head. Remaining underparts creamy white to immaculate white and unmarked, aside from wonderful, vague rufous-brown streaks on either side of higher breast. Underneath wing coverts white and unmarked, with remiges pale grayish with a large, darkish terminal band. Grownup dark-morph hen has physique, head, and wing coverts virtually fully darkish brown. Each gentle and darkish morphs characterised by a comparatively brief, broad tail, pale beneath with a large, darkish subterminal band and some different slender bands seen. (from Birds of the World)
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed Brief-tailed hawks close to the Caldera Mangrove space at Mata de Limón and once more alongside Hwy 126 simply south of Hwy 4 west of Sarapiqui, Heredia.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Photograph Gallery pictures (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by international locations.
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