Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Short-tailed Hawk FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Buteo brachyurus fulginosis REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 26 Resident, species present all year. 25 Apparently secure in Belize 24 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 24 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 18 District Reference Belize 6 Cayo 6 Corozal 10 Orange Walk 6 Toledo 4 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Sighting Wet season 12 Chiquibul National Park Sighting August 11 Columbia River Forest Reserve 22 Columbia River Forest Reserve 4 Shipstern Nature Reserve Permanent 10 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Dry season 13 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 15 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 20 Gallon Jug 6 Gallon Jug Dry season 14 Chiquibul National Park 5 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 35 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Wet season 7 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve Dry season 8 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop Sighting Dry season 13 Private land, see comments Sighting 16 Private land, see comments Sighting 17 Government land Collected as voucher 23 Government land Sighting 17 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 20 Sibun River 7 New River 8 Elevation Reference 1100-1200 m 11 1-200 m 17 1-200 m 20 1-200 m 21 1-200 m 23 201-400 m 17 601-800 m 22 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 8 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 16 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 6 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 21 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 21 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 21 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 13 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 23 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 35 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 17 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 35 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 11 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 22 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 10 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 15 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 23 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 21 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 17 Subtropical wet 35 Subtropical moist 20 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 22 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 11 General Distribution Comments 26* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Common southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Uncommon coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. Uncommon mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. Uncommon sub-tropical lower montane forest. 25* Uncommon in northern hardwood forests, uncommon in southern hardwood forests, rare in coastal savannahs. 16* Big Falls Rice Farm 4* Rare at Gloria Camp References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Howard, R. and A. Moore. 1980. A Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Oxford. 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. 1992. The Maya Divide Expedition 1-15 May. Unpub. report. 6 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 7 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 8 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 9 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 10 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. 11 Matola, S., compiler. 1989. Doyle's Delight, 20 - 31 August. Unpublished report. 12 Reichelt, B., C. Philcox. 1994. DRAFT - Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Natural History Studies. Unpublished report. 13 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 14 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 15 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 16 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 17 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 18 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). 19 Kamstra, J. May 1987. An Ecological Survey of the Cockscomb Basin, Belize. Masters Thesis. York University, Ontario, Canada 20 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 21 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 22 Jones, L., D. Gardner. 1997. Little Quartz Ridge Rapid Assessment Program. Executive Summary: Birds. Draft report for FPMP 23 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 24 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. 25 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 26 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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