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Red-shouldered Hawk
Buteo lineatus · Family Accipitridae
Buteo lineatus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 5,078,705
- Countries and territories with records
- 12
About this species
This species has 5,078,705 occurrence records from 12 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (97.7%) and Canada (2.1%); together they account for 99.8% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.45% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buteo lineatus combines the genus name Buteo with the species epithet lineatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 27 species of the genus Buteo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Buteo jamaicensis, Buteo buteo and Buteo lagopus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 12.3 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.