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The White-throated Hawk, Buteo albigula, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which includes the eagles, hawks and Old World vultures. In British usage it would be called a buzzard rather than a true hawk.

The White-throated Hawk is a rather small Buteo, 42 to 45 centimeters long. It lives in the Andes mountains of South AmericaSouth America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It became attached to North America only recently, geologically speaking, wi and ranges down to the coast in the O'HigginsRegion del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins also known as VI Region is a region in Chile. Geography of Chile. region of ChileThe word chile may also refer to Chilli pepper. The Republic of Chile is a republic located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow piece of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argenti, preferring wooded areas. It is closely related to the more widely distributed Short-tailed HawkShort-tailed Hawk : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Falconiformes : Accipitridae Buteo brachyurus Binomial name Buteo brachyurus Vieillot, 1816 Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, h and was formerly considered conspecific with it. The White-throated Hawk differs in having a longer tail and no dark morphIn biology, polymorphism can be defined as "the occurrence in the same habitat of two or more forms of a trait in such frequencies that the rarer cannot be maintained by recurrent mutation alone. Ford, 1940. The different forms are called morphs (or phase. It also shows plumage differences such as brown streaks on the breast and belly, and a blackish tail with barely visible darker bands.

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Page in Spanish from Aves de Chile, with photographs