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Rupornis magnirostris · Family Accipitridae

Rupornis magnirostris

Family Accipitridae

Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Accipitridae
GBIF occurrence records
1,023,919
Countries and territories with records
27
Roadside Hawk
Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes from Goiânia, Brazil · Buteo magnirostris -Goias -Brazil-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes from Goiânia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Diego Cueva · Rupornis_magnirostris_-_Roadside_Hawk_XC353868.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Diego Cueva · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 1,023,919 occurrence records from 27 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (24.8%), Brazil (16.7%), Costa Rica (10.3%), Argentina (9.6%) and Mexico (7.8%); together they account for 69.3% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.95% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Rupornis magnirostris combines the genus name Rupornis with the species epithet magnirostris. It is the only species of the genus Rupornis in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 2.5 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Accipitridae

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