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White-tailed hawk

Geranoaetus albicaudiatus

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Description:

•They are not migratory birds, but make regional movements when food is scarce.
•They eat rabbits, cotton rats, lizards, snakes, frogs, arthropods, birds, marmosets and carrion.
•They build nests out of freshly broken twigs, often of thorny plants.

Habitat:

Open and semi-open regions with few trees and rarely in rainy locales
-I saw this hawk in Itaipava (RJ, Brazil)

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PublishedAugust 23, 2016

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