Widespread in tropical and subtropical
               lowlands...eats small mammals, birds, crabs,
               frogs, toads, lizards, snakes and large insects.
          
         
            
               Buteogallus meridionalis
            
               (L 21-24" Wt 30 oz)
          
         
         
            
               Buteogallus means hawk
               rooster; meridionalis is
               Latin for southern.
          
         
            
               A sky of angry screeching,
            
               demanding;
            
               like a raptor in the wind.
            
               Doesn’t have the impact
            
               that simple warbling brings.
            
               
(Madeleine McLaughlin)
          
         
            
               © Paul A.
               Schwartz
            
               Macaulay
               Library