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title: "Gavião-papa-gafanhoto"
description: "Buteo swainsoni — Aves. Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is a large bird species in the Accipitriformes order."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/swainson-s-hawk
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gavião-papa-gafanhoto

> Buteo swainsoni — Aves. Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is a large bird species in the Accipitriformes order.

- Scientific name: *Buteo swainsoni*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Campos e prados)
- iNaturalist observations: 33528
- Wikidata: [Q833963](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q833963)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5196](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5196)

## Names

- en: Swainson's Hawk
- de: Präriebussard
- es: Aguililla de Swainson
- fr: Buse de Swainson
- nl: Prairiebuizerd
- pt: Gavião-papa-gafanhoto
- pl: Myszołów preriowy

## Countries with the most observations

US (21776), CA (5386), MX (3308), AR (597), PA (159), CO (98), CR (98), SV (87), UY (45), HN (27), NI (27), GT (21)

## Summary

Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is a large bird species in the Accipitriformes order. This species was named after William Swainson, a British naturalist. It is colloquially known as the grasshopper hawk or locust hawk, as it is very fond of Acrididae (locusts and grasshoppers) and will voraciously eat these insects whenever they are available.
Their breeding habitat is prairie and dry grasslands in western North America. They build a stick nest in a tree or shrub or on a cliff edge. This species is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Argentina; it has been recorded as a vagrant in neighboring Chile, in the island…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swainson%27s_hawk

## Photo

![Gavião-papa-gafanhoto](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/swainson-s-hawk/medium.jpg)

Photo: Irene · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/284616315

## Machine access

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