black-chested buzzard-eagle
geranoaetus melanoleucus latin

The Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is helpful to farmers by keeping down the numbers of the rabbits, which can be serious agricultural pests.

The Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is allied to the Buteo hawks, and it is sometimes included with these.

Black-chested Buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus)

The Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is readily identified in flight by its short wedge-shaped tail scarcely protruding from its long, broad wings.

In fact, in the mid-20th century Buteo fuscescens was the prevailing name for the Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle for some years, but it was eventually dismissed as erroneous.

The relationship of the Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle to the prehistoric genera Titanohierax from the Caribbean and the Pan-American Amplibuteo also warrant more study.

Where Aquila eagles are absent, other eagles, such as the buteonine Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle of South America, may assume the position of top raptorial predator in open areas.

When the Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle was first described by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1819, it was placed in the genus Spizaetus, as Spizaetus melanoleucus.

The Barred Hawk (L. princeps) looks similar to the Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle in general color pattern, though the tail differs much in shape, size, and the bright white central band stands out.

Predators of adult and young Rufous Horneros include birds of prey such as the Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle Buteo melanoleucus, small mammals, domestic cats, and a number of species of snakes and possibly lizards.

The Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is found in mountainous or hilly terrain with sparse vegetation, shrubland or (in the south of its range) Nothofagus forest, where it spends a lot of time soaring in thermals and vertical drafts while looking for prey.

However, it seems there is no real reason to suppose that the lineage of the Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle is North American in origin; fossils that might have been its ancestors at first sight differ in details and are more likely to belong to other buteonine lineages.

Among the birds in the park includes the Andean guan, the white-tailed quetzal, the masked trogon, magpies and Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle, some larger species like the Andean condor are now in danger of extinction and is therefore is taking a restocking program in Colombia.

Black-chested Buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus)

This name was also used for the Black-chested Eagle-buzzard (Geranoaetus melanoleucus or Buteo melanoleucus).

Owing the wide overall range Geranoaetus melanoleucus is considered a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN.

The Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) is a bird of prey of the hawk and eagle family (Accipitridae).