๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Savanna Hawk live?

Buteogallus meridionalis has 129,405 records in 17 countries and territories, from 1851 to 2026. Most records come from Brazil.

Savanna Hawk
Savanna Hawk โ€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeButeogallus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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
Brazil 44,955
Colombia 24,001
Argentina 21,050
Panama 8,552
Venezuela 5,416
Paraguay 3,891
Ecuador 3,787
Uruguay 3,469
Guyana 3,437
Trinidad & Tobago 3,315
Bolivia 2,833
Peru 2,097
Costa Rica 1,407
Suriname 705
French Guiana 469
Nicaragua 13
United States 8

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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.