Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle
Geranoaetus melanoleucus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,821
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The black-chested buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) is a bird of prey of the hawk and eagle family (Accipitridae). It lives in open regions of South America. This species is also known as the black buzzard-eagle, the gray buzzard-eagle, or analogously with "eagle" or "eagle-buzzard" replacing "buzzard-eagle", or as the Chilean blue eagle. It is sometimes placed in the genus Buteo.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Black-chested buzzard-eagle”.