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White-tailed hawk

Geranoaetus albicaudiatus

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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BrunoMoller
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BrunoMoller

Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil

Spotted on Feb 6, 2016
Submitted on Aug 23, 2016

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