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| Buteo swainsoni |
Bonaparte, 1838 |
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Family: Accipitridae |
Order: Falconiformes |
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Swainson's hawk |
Buse de Swainson |
Busardo chapulinero |
Präriebussard |
| Migration: intercontinental |
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large flocks in autumn |
Highly migratory. Main non-breeding grounds (boreal winter) in Argentina; migration follows land route
through C America, with some scattered wintering grounds in other open habitats of Neotropics. Some autumn
migrant flocks in C America in 1000´s; total of 400,000 recently recorded over Veracruz, E Mexico. May fly
without feeding between S USA and winter quarters in South America. Increasingly some birds winter in
Florida, California and also Texas. (del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds), 1994)
- digitised by GROMS, after del Hoyo J A Elliott; J Sargatal (eds) (1994) - www.hbw.com,
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| Regions: Mesoamerica, North America, South America |
| Feedback: mail to Klaus Riede |
| (Last update: 05.03.04 by E.Heuel) |