Английская Википедия:Gray-lined hawk
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The gray-lined hawk (Buteo nitidus) is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges. It is sometimes placed in the genus Asturina as Asturina nitida. The species has been split by the American Ornithological Society from the gray hawk. The gray-lined hawk is found from El Salvador to Argentina, as well as on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.
Description
The gray-lined hawk is Шаблон:Convert in length and weighs Шаблон:Convert average. The adult has a pale gray body, the tail is black with three white bands and the legs are orange. It has fine white barring on the upper parts. Immature birds have dark brown upperparts, a pale-banded brown tail, brown-spotted white underparts and a brown streaked buff head and neck. This species is quite short-winged, and has a fast agile flight for a Buteo.
Cristalino River, South Amazon, Brazil
Diet
It feeds mainly on lizards and snakes, but will also take insects (such as beetles and grasshoppers), small mammals (such as rabbits, squirrels and mice), birds (such as quails and nestling doves), frogs, toads, other amphibians and fish.[1][2][3][4] It usually sits on an open high perch from which it swoops on its prey, but will also hunt from a low glide.
Breeding
The nest is of sticks and built high in a tree. The usual clutch is one to three, usually two white to pale blue eggs.[5] The young take about 6 weeks to fledging.
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/sites/default/files/lifesciences/images/Buteo_nitidus%20-%20Grey%20or%20Grey-lined%20Hawk.pdf Шаблон:Bare URL PDF
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Ferguson-Lees, J. & Christie, D.A. & Franklin, K. & Mead, D. & Burton, P.. (2001). Raptors of the world. Helm Identification Guides.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- Baillie, J.E.M.; Hilton-Taylor, C. & Stuart, S.N. (eds.) (2004): 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A Global Species Assessment. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Шаблон:ISBN
- ffrench, Richard; O'Neill, John Patton & Eckelberry, Don R. (1991): A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd edition). Comstock Publishing, Ithaca, N.Y.. Шаблон:ISBN
- Hilty, Steven L. (2003): Birds of Venezuela. Christopher Helm, London. Шаблон:ISBN
- Stiles, F. Gary & Skutch, Alexander Frank (1989): A guide to the birds of Costa Rica. Comistock, Ithaca. Шаблон:ISBN
- Шаблон:Cite journal Full text via BioOne. (Asturina merged into Buteo, citing Riesing, et al. 2003.)
- Riesing, M. J., L. Kruckenhauser, A. Gamauf, and E. Haring. 2003. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Buteo (Aves: Accipitridae) based on mitochondrial marker sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27:328–342.
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