Broad-winged Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk / Buteo platypterus

Broad-winged Hawk

Here the details of the Broad-winged Hawk named bird below:

SCI Name:  Buteo platypterus
Protonym:  Sparvius Platypterus Tabl.Encyc.Meth.Orn. 3 livr.93 p.1273
Taxonomy:  Accipitriformes / Accipitridae /
Taxonomy Code:  brwhaw
Type Locality:  Pennsylvania = Schuylkill River, ex Wilson.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

BUTEO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Common Buzzard B. buteo) Specific name Falco buteo Linnaeus, 1758. "BUSE, Buteo.  Bec, tête et base du bec des Éperviers; ailes des Aigles; tarse gros et court." (de Lacépède 1799); "Buteo Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 228).
Var. BateoBiteo.
Synon. AmplibuteoArchibuteo, Asturina, Asturisca, Brewsteria, Butaetes, Butaquila, Buteaetos, Buteola, Buthierax, Cerchne, Circobuteo, Coryornis, Craxirex, Dromolestes, Hemiaetus, Limnaetus, Limnosalus, Onychotes, Poecilopternis, Praedo, Pterolestes, Triorchis.

buteo
L. buteo, buteonis  buzzard; "41. FALCO.  ...  Buteo.  14. F. cera pedibusque luteis, corpore fusco, abdomine pallido maculis fuscis.  Buteo vulgaris. Gesn. av. 46. Will. ornith. 38. t. 6. Raj. av. 16.  Buteo. Alb. av. I. p. 1. t. 1.  Habitat in Europa, Cuniculis & Bufonibus infestus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Buteo).

platypterus
Gr. πλατυς platus  broad; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Broad-winged Hawk” of A. Wilson, 1812 (Buteo).

SUBSPECIES

Broad-winged Hawk (Northern)
SCI Name: Buteo platypterus platypterus
platypterus
Gr. πλατυς platus  broad; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Broad-winged Hawk” of A. Wilson, 1812 (Buteo).

Broad-winged Hawk (Caribbean)
SCI Name: Buteo platypterus [antillarum Group]
BUTEO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Common Buzzard B. buteo) Specific name Falco buteo Linnaeus, 1758. "BUSE, Buteo.  Bec, tête et base du bec des Éperviers; ailes des Aigles; tarse gros et court." (de Lacépède 1799); "Buteo Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 228).
Var. BateoBiteo.
Synon. AmplibuteoArchibuteo, Asturina, Asturisca, Brewsteria, Butaetes, Butaquila, Buteaetos, Buteola, Buthierax, Cerchne, Circobuteo, Coryornis, Craxirex, Dromolestes, Hemiaetus, Limnaetus, Limnosalus, Onychotes, Poecilopternis, Praedo, Pterolestes, Triorchis.