Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Accipitridae
Genus
Buteogallus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
This is a historic version of this account.   Current version

Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga

John van Dort
Version: 1.0 — Published January 18, 2019

References

Introduction

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Recommended Citation

van Dort, J. (2019). Great Black Hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.grbhaw1.01
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