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title: "Gray-lined Hawk"
description: "Buteo nitidus — Uccelli. The gray-lined hawk (Buteo nitidus) is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/gray-lined-hawk
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gray-lined Hawk

> Buteo nitidus — Uccelli. The gray-lined hawk (Buteo nitidus) is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges.

- Scientific name: *Buteo nitidus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1810
- Wikidata: [Q1260070](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1260070)
- iNaturalist taxon: [201285](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201285)

## Names

- en: Gray-lined Hawk
- de: Graubussard
- es: Aguililla gris meridional
- fr: Buse cendrée
- nl: Grijze buizerd
- pt: Gavião-pedrês
- pl: Myszołowik prążkowany

## Countries with the most observations

BR (382), PA (349), CO (263), EC (206), TT (115), GF (72), CR (71), PE (49), BO (48), GY (37), VE (33), SR (24)

## Summary

The gray-lined hawk (Buteo nitidus) is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges. It is sometimes placed in the genus Asturina as Asturina nitida. The species has been split by the American Ornithological Society from the gray hawk. The gray-lined hawk is found from El Salvador to Argentina, as well as on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray-lined_hawk

## Photo

![Gray-lined Hawk](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gray-lined-hawk/medium.jpg)

Photo: Naturalist Tours · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124748908

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gray-lined-hawk?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).