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Gray-lined hawk
Buteo nitidus · Family Accipitridae
Buteo nitidus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 416,809
- Countries and territories with records
- 23
About this species
This species has 416,809 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (34.6%), Costa Rica (19.2%), Mexico (18.3%), Belize (6.6%) and Honduras (3%); together they account for 81.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.013% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buteo nitidus combines the genus name Buteo with the species epithet nitidus. 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 lineatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 29th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is close to the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.