Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Broad-winged Hawk FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Buteo platypterus platypterus SYNONYMS - Falco pennsylvanicus- Wilson, 1812 and Sparvius platypterus - Viellot, 1823 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Transient, present briefly as migrant. 14 Apparently secure in Belize 15 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 15 PIF-1 Pri. 7, winters s. Mexican border 13 PIF Trend: Possible Increase 13 Transient, present briefly as migrant. 3 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 11 District Reference Belize 5 Corozal 7 Toledo 9 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Columbia River Forest Reserve Dry season 4 Shipstern Nature Reserve 7 Private land, see comments 9 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 12 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 10' 8 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 7 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 9 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 7 General Distribution Comments 14* Occasional cayes inc. Ambergris. 9* Toledo Settlement, 4 mi. W of Punta Gorda 4* rare at Gloria Camp 3* Transient, fewer than five records in 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 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 6 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 7 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 8 Miller, B. 1994. Summary of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bird Banding Laboratory DATA. in prep. 9 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 10 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. 11 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 12 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 13 Working Group, Partners in Flight. 1992. Needs Assessment: Monitoring Migratory Birds. Report for Neotropical Migratory Bird Program. 14 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p. 15 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.
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