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| − | [[Image:Red-backed_Hawk.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Peter Bono]] | + | [[Image:Red-backed_Hawk.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Peter Bono <br/>A dark phase bird framegrabbed from video taken on the road to Portillo Pass, ne of Santiago, Chile, in February 2003.]] |
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| − | + | This bird has a white tail and a black sub-terminal band. Males have grey backs with largely grey or white underparts. The larger females typically have a rufous back but can have either white or rufous underparts. Male: 18 - 20 in. Female: 20 - 22 in. | |
| − | == | + | ==Distribution== |
| − | + | [[Argentina]], [[Bolivia]], [[Brazil]], [[Chile]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Falkland Islands]], [[Peru]], [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]], and [[Uruguay]]. | |
| + | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | ==Habitat== | ||
| + | Temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. | ||
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| + | ==Behaviour== | ||
| + | This bird catches its preyon the wing, and eats mammals, birds, reptiles and snails. It likes sit on the highest branches of trees or edges of ravines. | ||
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| + | It nests in treetops. The nest is large and made of dry sticks; generally with 2 white with light reddish spots eggs are laid, size 57 x 45 mm. app. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Buteo+polyosoma}} | {{GSearch|Buteo+polyosoma}} | ||
[[Category:Birds]] | [[Category:Birds]] | ||
Revision as of 17:32, 20 September 2007
- Buteo polyosoma
Identification
This bird has a white tail and a black sub-terminal band. Males have grey backs with largely grey or white underparts. The larger females typically have a rufous back but can have either white or rufous underparts. Male: 18 - 20 in. Female: 20 - 22 in.
Distribution
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Uruguay.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
Behaviour
This bird catches its preyon the wing, and eats mammals, birds, reptiles and snails. It likes sit on the highest branches of trees or edges of ravines.
It nests in treetops. The nest is large and made of dry sticks; generally with 2 white with light reddish spots eggs are laid, size 57 x 45 mm. app.
