Zone-tailed Hawk
Buteo albonotatus
Family: Hawks, eagles, and kites
Zone-tailed Hawk is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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Adults resemble the common black hawk, but are distinctly more slender in flight and overall small, and they have more white bars on the tail.
It feeds on small terrestrial tetrapods of all kinds.
Eggs have been found as late as August in Colombia, implying only a loose breeding season in the true tropics.