Bay-winged Hawk

48 - 56cm. The adult is deep sooty brown to fuscous brown, the breast and abdomen often streaked with some white: lower back and rump tinged with chestnut: lesser and under wing coverts, margins of middle coverts and tibiae chestnut brown: tail coverts above and below white, the tail tipped white: iris brown: cere, lores and orbit yellow: bill pale bluish gray: feet orange yellow.<nThe immature is like the adult above, the crown and hindneck more or less streaked buff or cinnamon: superciliaries buffy, wing coverts rufous, spotted with black: underside buff: throat finely streaked, breast and abdomen boldly streaked with fuscous: flanks and tibiae barred rufous: tail underneath light gray with narrow dark barring.

Long whistles zeeee ... zeeee....ziiiii...

Forages by flying low over open country, sometimes hunts from a perch.

Rare in savannas and semiopen areas, swamps and near large bodies of water.

Throughout. Sea level to 1500 meters. In Estado S<C4>o Paulo was observed near <8E>Cubatao<8E> and in the north near <8E>Vista Bonita<8E> ^119 .