Black and White Hawk-eagle in the Amazon

Black and White Hawk-eagle in the Amazon.

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Joost Thissen

Lion

This looks like the one as pictured here:
http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=267335
It says that it is a Black and White Hawk Eagle, but other pictures of that specie on internet look different, so I am not sure if the description is right.
I haven't been able to find another matching picture jet, even though there aren't many bird of prey in the pantanal. Posted 13 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks as always, I think this is a positive match. Particularly the dark stripe from its eye to the back of the head seems similar. Note though that this was captured in the Amazon, not in the Pantanal. Posted 13 years ago

loris

Green Fly

very nice composition, and a beautiful bird :) Posted 13 years ago

Thibaud Aronson

Lion

Hi, actually, that's a yellow-headed caracara, that reference photo you found is misidentified, though you did match it correctly :-) Posted 7 years ago, modified 7 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks a lot for the correction :) Posted 7 years ago

The Yellow-headed Caracarra

The yellow-headed caracara is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae, the falcons and caracaras. It is found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, every mainland South American country except Chile, and on Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Trinidad and Tobago....hieroglyph snipped...

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Similar species: Falcons And Caracaras

Species identified by Ferdy Christant