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Zone-tailed Hawk

Buteo albonotatus

Classification

Class
Aves

The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas. It is somewhat similar in plumage and flight style to a common scavenger, the turkey vulture, and may benefit from being able to blend into groups of vultures. It feeds on small terrestrial tetrapods of all kinds.

Distribution

(c) Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 2,356Peru · 598