ML476049541
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Observation details
Utterly unexpected. A few hundred meters up Rio Pirre, Moyo Rodriguez called our attention to a hawk calling from the forest giving a series of rich, evenly-spaced, whistled notes which he identified at Gray-bellied Hawk. Attempts to see or call in the bird failed, and by the time JOC had started to record it stopped vocalizing. Incredibly, a few hundred meters downstream we checked out a kettle of vultures and hawks beginning to rise. We got photos of three accipiters, one comparatively lower and two interacting higher up. The upper birds were of two sizes and clearly interacting, suggesting a pair. Analysis of the poor photos show three individual Gray-bellied Hawks! Bicolored reputedly does not soar, and the birds in the photos show white below, no rufous thighs, a dark cap and three white tail bands about the same width as the black bands.
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- 335 pixels x 377 pixels
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