Roadside Hawk

Description:

The roadside hawk is 31–41 cm long and weighs 250–300 g. Males are smaller than females, they are mainly brown or grey with light reddish-brown wings, especially when seen in flight. Several subspecies are recognize (about a dozen.) They feed on large insects and small vertebrates, usually seen on edges of forest and roads, they are found from Mexico to Argentina

Habitat:

Rainforest edges

Notes:

R. m. griseocauda sub specie for CR. Picture, shows a juvenile.