White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ForestPlatform nestMedium · 290 g

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 3 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 4 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Nicolás Baresch Uribe, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 6 — Photo: (c) GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Marcelo Schmidt Roberti, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

White-rumped Hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous), photo 10 — Photo: (c) scaup, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the White-rumped Hawk sounds like

Sonogram of the White-rumped Hawk: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Flight call · Zamora-Chinchipe: Reserva Tapichalaca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The white-rumped hawk is 33 to 40 cm (13 to 16 in) long with a 67 to 79 cm (26 to 31 in) wingspan. One male weighed 290 g (10 oz) and one female 389 g (14 oz). Males and females have the same plumage. Adults are almost entirely black but with the namesake white rump and undertail coverts. Their tail has a narrow grayish-brown band at its midpoint and their thighs are feathered rufous. Their eye, cere, legs, and feet are yellow. Immatures have brown upperparts with rufous mottling and heavily mottled rufous underparts. Voice: The white-rumped hawk's call is "a high-pitched whistle" with some variations such as "KEEEEiu" and "a longer, more monotonous high-pitched whistle".

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When to see the White-rumped Hawk

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-rumped Hawk

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Ecuador Peru Brazil Venezuela Argentina Bolivia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Paraguay.

About the White-rumped Hawk

The white-rumped hawk is a species of bird of prey in subfamily Accipitrinae, the "true" hawks, of family Accipitridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

Harris's HawkParabuteo unicinctusThis medium-large hawk is roughly intermediate in size between a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis).

Side by side: Harris's Hawk vs White-rumped Hawk

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