Geranoaetus

Geranoaetus
Black-chested buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Buteoninae
Genus: Geranoaetus
Kaup, 1844
Type species
Geranoaetus melanoleucus
Temminck,1824

Geranoaetus is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae. It contains three species. Geranoaetus are huge birds. Their wing span is about 70-80 in and their total length is 25-30 in.

Genus Geranoaetus – Miller, JF, 1778 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
White-tailed hawk

Geranoaetus albicaudatus
(Vieillot, 1816)

Three subspecies
  • G. a. hypospodius (Gurney Sr, 1876)
  • G. a. colonus (Berlepsch, 1892)
  • G. a. albicaudatus (Vieillot, 1816)
Coastal Texas and the Rio Grande Valley to central Argentina, as well as many Caribbean islands
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Diet:		  LC 


Variable hawk

Geranoaetus polyosoma
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

Four subspecies
  • G. p. polyosoma (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
  • G. p. exsul (Salvin, 1875)
  • G. p. poecilochrous (Gurney Sr, 1879)
  • G. p. fjeldsai (Cabot, J & de Vries, 2009)
Central and north Andean highlands
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Diet:		  LC 


Black-chested buzzard-eagle

Geranoaetus melanoleucus
(Vieillot, 1819)

Two subspecies
  • Geranoaetus melanoleucus melanoleucus (Vieillot, 1819)
  • Geranoaetus melanoleucus australis Swann, 1922
South America
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Diet:		  LC 


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