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title: "Zone-tailed Hawk"
description: "Buteo albonotatus — Uccelli. The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/zone-tailed-hawk
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zone-tailed Hawk

> Buteo albonotatus — Uccelli. The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas.

- Scientific name: *Buteo albonotatus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savana), `desert` (Deserto)
- iNaturalist observations: 6770
- Wikidata: [Q595114](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595114)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5180](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5180)

## Names

- en: Zone-tailed Hawk
- de: Bandschwanzbussard
- es: Aguililla aura
- fr: Buse à queue barrée
- nl: Bandstaartbuizerd
- pt: Gavião-urubu
- pl: Myszołów czarny

## Countries with the most observations

US (2737), MX (2470), BR (312), PA (160), HN (134), CR (122), CO (84), TT (76), SV (69), VE (39), EC (34), GT (17)

## Summary

The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas. It is somewhat similar in plumage and flight style to a common scavenger, the turkey vulture, and may benefit from being able to blend into groups of vultures. It feeds on small terrestrial tetrapods of all kinds.

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

## Photo

![Zone-tailed Hawk](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/zone-tailed-hawk/medium.jpg)

Photo: adel-fridus · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66991862

## Machine access

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