Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Double-toothed Kite FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Harpagus bidentatus fasciatus SYNONYMS - Falco bidentatus - Latham, 1790 REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 23 Resident, species present all year. 3 Apparently secure in Belize 22 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 22 District Reference Cayo 6 Orange Walk 6 Stann Creek 5 Toledo 4 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Ambergris Cay Photographed February 24 Commerce Bight Forest Reserve Collected as voucher 21 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Dry season 9 Chiquibul Forest Reserve Dry season 10 Chiquibul Forest Reserve Dry season 11 Columbia River Forest Reserve Wet season 4 Columbia River Forest Reserve 13 Columbia River Forest Reserve 20 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Sighting 18 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 16 Gallon Jug Sighting Wet season 6 Gallon Jug 14 Bladen Nature Reserve 8 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Wet season 5 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Sighting Dry season 7 Private land, see comments Permanent 17 Private land, see comments Dry season 12 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 18 Bladen Branch Raspaculo River 10 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 24 1-200 m 18 1-200 m 19 201-400 m 21 601-800 m 20 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 24 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 18 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 19 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 19 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 12 17 52'35" to 18 11'30"; 87 49' to 88 03' 9 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 8 13 17 20 4 21 16 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 19 Subtropical wet 21 Subtropical moist 19 Subtropical moist 18 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 20 General Distribution Comments 24* Two adults seen and photographed Feb. 12, 1992 on Ambergis Cay. 23* Rare northern semideciduous moist forest. Rare southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. 17* San Jose 12* Augustine 8* Richardson Crk. & Bladen Br. upstream to Calera Caves 4* recorded at Union Camp 3* Permanent resident, rare southern hardwood forests. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Parker, T. A. III, B. K. Holst, L. H. Emmons, J. R. Meyer. 1993. A Biological Assessment of the Columbia River Forest Reserve, Toledo District, Belize. pp.71-78 5 Matola, S., ed. 1990. The Cockscomb Basin Expedition Report June 11-18. Unpublished report 6 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 7 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1994, Birds of Caracol, 1988 - 1993. in prep. 8 Brokaw, N. L. V., T. L. Lloyd-Evans. 1987. The Bladen Branch Wilderness. p.38-42. Unpublished report. 9 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 10 Mallory, E. 1991. Survey of Birds and their Habitats, of the Joint Services Scientific Expedition to Upper Raspaculo, Maya Mountains, Belize. 11 Mallory, E. 1993. Birds of the Upper Raspaculo, Belize: JSSEUR II. Unpublished report. 12 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 13 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 14 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 15 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1992. Distributional Notes and New Species Records in Belize. Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 1(2):6-25. 16 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 17 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 18 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 19 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 20 Jones, L., D. Gardner. 1997. Little Quartz Ridge Rapid Assessment Program. Executive Summary: Birds. Draft report for FPMP 21 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 22 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 23 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. 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