Birds of Ecuador


White-throated Hawk (Buteo albigula) Peru
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Migrates north to the Andes of central and northern South America in the austral winter.


Zone-tailed Hawk (Buteo albonotatus) Arizona, United States
Photograph by Andy Reago Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Zone-tailed Hawk (Buteo albonotatus) Lagunillas, Guerrero, Mexico
Photograph by Stephen J. Davies © All Rights Reserved.

A black hawk that may confuse prey by looking similar to a Black Vulture.


Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus) Male
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus fuliginosus) Female Dark morph.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Galapagos Hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) Immature Vulnerable ENDEMIC Rabida Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
Photograph by Mark Putney Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

A large heavy hawk, similar to North American species like the Swainson's Hawk, from which it may have evolved.


Grey-lined Hawk (Buteo nitidus pallidus) Brazil
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza © All Rights Reserved.


Grey-lined Hawk (Buteo nitidus nitidus) Immature French Guiana
Photograph by Michel GIRAUD-AUDINE © All Rights Reserved.


Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) Minca, Magdalena, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Northern migrant. A medium-sized hawk that is relatively common and often returns yearly to the same spot. Broad-winged hawks migrate in 'kettles' of many hundreds, sometimes with Turkey Vultures or Swainson's Hawks. Immatures have drop shaped vertical spotting, while adults are barred horizontally.
From below.
Perched, from back.
Immature.


Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) Arizona, United States An 'pale morph' adult male with a dark chest, the most common plumage. Others are all brown (dark morph) or brown with rufous belly (reddish morph) (HBW).
Photograph by Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) Immature Saguache County, Colorado, USA An immature missing the dark chest.
Photograph by Calibas Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

A large (55 cm.) northern migrant hawk that migrates far south, sometimes in groups of hundreds. From the ground compare to White-tailed Hawk but note long pointed wings, and additional thin bands on tail that might be hard to see from ground.