Chilean hawk
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The Chilean hawk (Accipiter chilensis) is a bird of prey species belonging to the typical hawks. It breeds in Andes forests from central Chile and western Argentina south to Tierra del Fuego, from sea level to 2,700 m[verification needed] altitude (though birds are rarely observed above 1,000 m). Some winter apparently in the lowlands of NW Argentina.
Chilean hawk | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Genus: | Accipiter |
Species: | A. chilensis |
Binomial name | |
Accipiter chilensis | |
Synonyms | |
Accipiter bicolor chilensis Philippi & Landbeck, 1864 (but see text) |
It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of its northern relative the bicolored hawk (A. bicolor), including by the American Ornithological Society and sometimes a distinct species. The two show differences in habitat preference and have allopatric distributions. But the situation is complicated by the subspecies pileatus, which is intermediate in plumage between bicolor and chilensis, and has been variously assigned to either species by those that consider them distinct.