๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Gray-lined Hawk live?

Buteo nitidus has 415,523 records in 22 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Gray-lined Hawk
Gray-lined Hawk โ€” Joao Quental / CC BY 2.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeButeo

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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 144,220
Costa Rica 80,081
Mexico 75,780
Belize 27,421
Honduras 12,484
Panama 11,681
Guatemala 11,305
Colombia 10,966
El Salvador 9,133
Brazil 8,060
Ecuador 4,970
Venezuela 4,642
Nicaragua 4,343
Trinidad & Tobago 4,216
Guyana 2,134
Peru 1,965
Suriname 942
French Guiana 644
Bolivia 498
Paraguay 32
Argentina 3
Cuba 2

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Red-shouldered/Broad-winged Hawk
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5,068,701 records
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3,359,616 records
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.