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__NOTOC__ The white-tailed hawk (''Geranoaetus albicaudatus'') is a large bird of prey species found in tropical or subtropical environments across the Americas. ==Description== The white-tailed hawk is a large, stocky hawk. It is close in size to the Swainson's and red-tailed hawks, its mean measurements falling slightly ahead of the first and slightly behind the latter. It can attain a total length of and a wingspan of . A body mass of was reported in ''B. a. hysopodius'' and in ''B. a. colonus''. Among standard measurements, the wing chord is , the tail is and the tarsus is . Adult birds are grey above and white below and on the rump, with faint pale grey or rufous barring. The short tail is white with a narrow black band near the end that is conspicuous in flight. A rusty-red shoulder patch is just as characteristic when the bird is sitting with wings closed. The wings are dark above, admixed with grey near the bases of the blackish primary remiges. The underwing is whitish, with indistinct brownish barring on the underwing coverts that extends onto the flanks and thighs. The iris is hazel, the cere is pale green, the beak is black with a horn-colored base, and the feet are yellow with black talons.〔(2008)〕 Immature birds are somewhat darker than adults; they may appear nearly black in faint light, in particular individuals which have little white below. The wing lining is conspicuously spotted black-and-white; the rusty shoulder patch is absent in younger birds. The tail changes from brown with several dark bars to greyish with a hazy dark band as the birds approach maturity. The bare parts are colored much like in the adult.〔 Its call is a high-pitched cackling ''...'', with a tinkling quality that reminds some of the bleating of a goat or the call of the laughing gull.〔 The white-tailed hawk is hard to confuse with any other bird, except that in the Southern Hemisphere winter, young birds are sometimes mistaken for migrant red-backed hawks.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「White-tailed hawk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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