Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Crane Hawk FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Geranospiza caerulescens SYNONYMS - Sparvius caerulescens - Viellot, 1817 REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 16 Resident, species present all year. 3 Insufficient information, uncertain 15 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 15 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 4 Orange Walk 4 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Columbia River Forest Reserve 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 13 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 12 Gallon Jug Sighting Wet season 4 Gallon Jug 10 Gallon Jug 8 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 8 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 7 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Sighting Dry season 6 Private land, see comments 5 Private land, see comments 9 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 13 Belize River 5 Sibun River 7 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 13 1-200 m 14 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' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 14 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' 14 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 14 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 12 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 14 Subtropical moist 14 Subtropical moist 13 General Distribution Comments 16* Rare northern semideciduous moist forest. Rare southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. 9* Orange Walk 5* Banana Bank Ranch 3* Permanent resident, rare northern and 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 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 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1994, Birds of Caracol, 1988 - 1993. in prep. 7 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 8 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 9 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 10 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 11 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. 12 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 13 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 14 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 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. 16 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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