Bicoloured Hawk

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Bicoloured Hawk
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Accipiter
Species: A. bicolor
Binomial name
Accipiter bicolor
(Vieillot, 1817)

The Bicoloured Hawk (Accipiter bicolor) is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The southern subspecies is sometimes split as the Chilean Hawk, Accipiter chilensis

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