Black-chested buzzard-eagle
| Black-chested buzzard-eagle | |
|---|---|
| Adult male G. m. australis showing the contrasting underside plumage. In the nominate subspecies, the contrast is even stronger due to the pure white belly. Note short grey-tipped tail. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Geranoaetus |
| Species: | G. melanoleucus |
| Binomial name | |
| Geranoaetus melanoleucus (Vieillot, 1819) | |
| Range of Geranoaetus melanoleucus | |
| Synonyms | |
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Buteo fuscescens (Vieillot, 1819) | |
The black-chested buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) is a bird of prey of the hawk and eagle family (Accipitridae). It lives in open regions of South America. This species is also known as the black buzzard-eagle, the gray buzzard-eagle, or analogously with "eagle" or "eagle-buzzard" replacing "buzzard-eagle", or as the Chilean blue eagle. It is sometimes placed in the genus Buteo.