White-browed hawk

The white-browed hawk (Leucopternis kuhli) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is found in northern South America's southern Amazon Basin in eastern Peru, Bolivia and northern Brazil.

White-browed hawk
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Leucopternis
Species:
L. kuhli
Binomial name
Leucopternis kuhli
Bonaparte, 1850

Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests.

Range in southern Amazon Basin

Amazonian Peru to Pará

The range of the white-browed hawk is limited by the Amazon River on the north. The bird's largest ranges are two areas: to the southwest in Amazonian eastern Peru, and to the south-central Amazon Basin to a combined headwater region of the Guaporé River and the Tapajós River. In Bolivia, on the Brazil-Bolivia border river the Guapore, the range bifurcates and is found only at the headwaters of the Guapore, and in the northern Bolivia-Peru region where the Guapore joins the headwater rivers of Brazil's Amazonas state's Madeira River.

The white-browed hawk's range extends from Peru and Bolivia in the southwest to Brazil's northeastern Pará state—the Atlantic coastal regions, and its border with Maranhão state, a distance of about 3000 km.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Leucopternis kuhli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)



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