Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Black-collared Hawk FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Busarellus nigricollis nigricollis SYNONYMS - Falco nigricollis - Latham, 1790 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 23 Resident, species present all year. 2 Apparently secure in Belize 22 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 22 District Reference Belize 3 Cayo 4 Corozal 9 Orange Walk 6 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Dry season 9 Columbia River Forest Reserve 17 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 11 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 13 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 19 Gallon Jug 11 Gallon Jug 12 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 10 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 15 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 7 Chiquibul National Park Collected as voucher 21 Community Baboon Sanctuary Permanent 18 Community Baboon Sanctuary 14 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve 6 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 3 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 8 Private land, see comments Sighting Wet season 7 Private land, see comments Dry season 16 Private land, see comments 5 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 19 Belize River 18 Sibun River 11 Manatee River 11 New River 11 Cox's Lagoon 3 Belize River 5 New River 6 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 19 1-200 m 20 601-800 m 21 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 16 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 4 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 20 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 20 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 20 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 11 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 21 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 17 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 9 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 13 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 8 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 20 Subtropical moist 20 Subtropical moist 19 Subtropical moist 18 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 21 General Distribution Comments 23* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Rare southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 17* Union Camp 16* Big Falls Rice Farm 8* Gold Button Ranch 7* Big Falls Rice Farm 5* Banana Bank Ranch 2* Permanent resident, common northern hardwood forests, uncommon coastal savannas, rare southern hardwood forests. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 3 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 Duncan, M., W. Duncan. 1993. Banana Bank, Nov. 1, Checklist provided in lit. 6 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 7 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 8 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 9 Reichelt, B., C. Philcox. 1994. DRAFT - Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Natural History Studies. Unpublished report. 10 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 11 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 12 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 13 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 14 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 15 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 16 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 17 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 18 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data 19 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 20 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 21 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 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. WWF-US. 35p.
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