Buteoninae

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Buteoninae
Buteo jamaicensis -Pillar Point Harbor, California, USA-8.jpg
Western red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis calurus)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Buteoninae
Genera

About 24, see article

The Buteoninae are a subfamily of birds of prey which consists of medium to large, broad-winged species.

They have large, powerful, hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, and powerful talons. They also have extremely keen eyesight to enable them to spot potential prey from a distance.

This subfamily contains the buzzards (buteonine hawks) with great diversity in appearance and form and some appearing eagle-like, with at least 50 species included overall in the subfamily. At one time, several types were grouped, including large assemblages such as booted eagles, but modern studies using mitochondrial DNA clarified that this subfamily was smaller than formerly classified.[1][2][3]

Systematics[]

The subfamily Buteoninae includes about 55 currently recognized species. Unlike many lineages of Accipitridae, which seemed to have radiated out of Africa or South Asia, the Buteoninae clearly originated in the Americas based on fossil records and current species distributions (more than 75% of the extant raptors from this lineage are found in the Americas).[4][5]

Genera[]

Image Genus Species
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) - Blue Cypress Lake, Florida.jpg Buteo Lacépède, 1799
Harris's Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) 4 of 4 in set.jpg Parabuteo Ridgway, 1874
Black-collared Hawk (16486633276).jpg Busarellus Lesson, 1843
White-eyed Buzzard (36082867080).jpg Butastur Hodgson, 1843
Savanna hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis).JPG Buteogallus Lesson, 1830
Plumbeous Hawk 2015-06-09 (5) (40326975931).jpg Cryptoleucopteryx Amaral et al., 2009
  • Plumbeous hawk(Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea)
Aguila en auarahua.jpg Geranoaetus Kaup, 1844
Lizard buzzard (38130337692).jpg Kaupifalco Bonaparte, 1854
Leucopternis semiplumbea -CR LaSelva fRF 01.jpg Leucopternis Kaup, 1847
Barred Hawk.jpg Morphnarchus Ridgway, 1920
Gray-backed Hawk - South-Ecuador S4E8637 (15478568822).jpg Pseudastur Blyth, 1849
  • Mantled hawk (Pseudastur polionotus)
  • White hawk (Pseudastur albicollis)
  • Gray-backed hawk (Pseudastur occidentalis)

Extinct Genera[]

  • †Bermuteo Olson, 2008

References[]

  1. ^ Lerner, H. R., Klaver, M. C., & Mindell, D. P. (2008). Molecular phylogenetics of the Buteonine birds of prey (Accipitridae). The Auk, 125(2), 304-315.
  2. ^ Lerner, H. R., & Mindell, D. P. (2005). Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 37(2), 327-346.
  3. ^ Lerner, H., Christidis, L., Gamauf, A., Griffiths, C., Haring, E., Huddleston, C. J., Kabra, S., Kocum, A., Krosby, M., Kvaloy, K., Mindell, D., Rasmussen, P., Rov, N., Wadleigh, R., Michael Wink & Gjershaug, J. O. (2017). Phylogeny and new taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (Accipitriformes: Aquilinae). Zootaxa 4216 (4), 301-320.
  4. ^ Brodkorb, P. (1964). Catalogue of fossil birds: Part 2 (Anseriformes through Galliformes). University of Florida.
  5. ^ Lerner, H. R.; Klaver, M. C. & Mindell, D. P. (2008). "Molecular phylogenetics of the Buteonine birds of prey (Accipitridae)" (PDF). The Auk. 125 (2): 304–315. doi:10.1525/auk.2008.06161.

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