🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the White-tailed hawk live?

Buteo albicaudatus has 160,354 records in 27 countries and territories, from 1834 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

White-tailed hawk
White-tailed hawk β€” Agecom Bahia from Bahia/Brazil / CC BY 2.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeButeo

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 89,362
Brazil 21,839
Colombia 13,416
Mexico 12,768
Argentina 4,438
Venezuela 4,156
Belize 3,694
CuraΓ§ao 2,161
Guyana 1,511
Uruguay 1,203
Bolivia 1,133
Costa Rica 1,054
Honduras 978
Paraguay 936
Panama 383
Suriname 329
Peru 292
Nicaragua 253
Guatemala 185
French Guiana 148
Trinidad & Tobago 42
Barbados 22
Aruba 20
El Salvador 15
Bonaire 14
Austria 1
Germany 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.