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Black-faced Hawk (Leucopternis melanops)
[order] Falconiformes | [family] Accipitridae | [latin] Leucopternis melanops | [UK] Black-faced Hawk | [FR] Buse ŕ face noire | [DE] Zügelbussard | [ES] Busardo Carinegro | [IT] Poiana faccianera | [NL] Zwartmaskerbuizerd | [SU] Aka
Characteristics
The plumage is of mainly blackish slate coloration of the pileum and hind neck, white spots on wing coverts and scapulars, and the possession of conspicuous orbital ring around the eyes. Underparts white, eyes brown and the dark tail has a single white bar (juveniles have two bars); Yellow feet. Sexes similar.
| wingspan min.: | 54 | cm | wingspan max.: | 58 | cm |
| size min.: | 37 | cm | size max.: | 42 | cm |
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It is found in the northern Amazon Basin of Brazil and the Guianas; also Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Not uncommon in the rain forest of Surinam, a nest has not yet been found. Lowland rainforest, preferably along forest and river edges. Sometimes seen in the savannas but mostly stays inside the forest. Is found up to 100 meter in Brazil. Diet consists of birds, reptiles (snakes), invertebrates and large athropods and beetles. Supposedly stalks ant tracks to catch birds eating the ants. This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 2,600,000 km2. It has a large global population estimated to be 10,000-100,000 individuals (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. Very little data available, thought to be sedentary. article number 1 Title
Sympatry of the Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops
and the White-browed Hawk Leucopternis kuhli in the
Lower Rio Tapajós, Pará, Brazil
Author(s): Jos Barlow, Torbjřrn Haugaasen & Carlos A. Peres
Abstract: Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops is distributed north of the Amazon river
and has been considered allopatric with Leucopternis kuhli, a similar species (or race
separated by the Amazon river) ..[more]..
Source: School of Environmental Sciences
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