Buteoninae

Buteoninae
Western Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis calurus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Accipitridae
Subfamily:Buteoninae
Genera

About 2 dozen, see article

The Buteoninae are a subfamily of birds of prey which consists of medium to large, broad-winged species.

They have large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs and powerful talons. They also have extremely keen eyesight to enable them to spot potential prey from a distance.

This subfamily contains the buzzards (buteonine hawks) of great diversity in appearance and form and some eagle-like forms, with at least 50 species included overall in the sub-family. At one time, several types of accipitrid were grouped, including large assemblages such as booted eagles but modern studies utilizing mitochondrial DNA clarified that this sub-family was smaller than formerly classified.[1][2][3]

Systematics

SUBFAMILY BUTEONINAE

References

  1. ↑ Lerner, H. R., Klaver, M. C., & Mindell, D. P. (2008). Molecular phylogenetics of the Buteonine birds of prey (Accipitridae). The Auk, 125(2), 304-315.
  2. ↑ Lerner, H. R., & Mindell, D. P. (2005). Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 37(2), 327-346.
  3. ↑ Lerner, H., Christidis, L., Gamauf, A., Griffiths, C., Haring, E., Huddleston, C. J., Kabra, S., Kocum, A., Krosby, M., Kvaloy, K., Mindell, D., Rasmussen, P., Rov, N., Wadleigh, R., Michael Wink & Gjershaug, J. O. (2017). Phylogeny and new taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (Accipitriformes: Aquilinae). Zootaxa 4216 (4), 301-320.
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