Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - White-tailed Hawk FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Buteo albicaudatus hypospondius REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 18 Resident, species present all year. 3 Apparently secure in Belize 17 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 17 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 13 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 4 Corozal 6 Orange Walk 9 Toledo 8 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Blue Hole National Park Sighting March 19 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 8 Payne's Creek Wildlife Sanctuary 8 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Dry season 6 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 10 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 14 Gallon Jug 9 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Privat 5 Private land, see comments 12 Government land Collected as voucher 16 Government land Dry season 11 Government land 7 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 14 Monkey River 8 Sibun River 5 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 19 1-200 m 14 1-200 m 15 201-400 m 16 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 12 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 11 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 15 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 15 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 5 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 16 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 15 4 8 8 6 8 10 10 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 19 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 16 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 15 Subtropical moist 14 General Distribution Comments 18* Rare southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Occasional Mtn. Pine Ridge/savannas on poor soil. Uncommon coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 12* Big Falls Rice Farm; Blue Creek 11* Airport Camp 8* Ycacos Lagoon 7* Boom-Hattieville Road 3* Permanent resident, uncommon coastal savannas. 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 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 6 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. 7 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 8 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 9 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 10 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 11 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpub- lished report. 12 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 13 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). 14 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 15 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 16 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 17 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. 18 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p. 19 Brush, T. 1998. List of the birds observed at Jaguar Creek Environmental Center and vicinity, including Blue Hole National Park, Caves Branch, citrus plantations and Hummingbird Highway roadsides in central Belize during visits 9-16 March 1997 and 13-21 March 1998. Reported in lit. to BBIS database administrator May 15, 1998.
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