Class Aves
Order Accipitriformes
Family Accipitridae
Accipiter—Bird Hawks // Aquila bivia—Two-wayed Eagle // Aquila chrysaetos—Golden Eagle // Aquila/Haliaeetus—Golden or Bald Eagle // Buteo—Buteonine Hawks // Buteogallus—Common Black Hawk // Circus cyaneus—Northern Harrier // Haliaeetus leucocephalus—Bald Eagle // Neophrontops americanus—American Neophrontops // Spizaetus willetti—Willett's Hawk-eagle
The Accipitridae includes a large number (the American Ornithologists' Union lists more than 50 species) of hawks, eagles, and relatives, of which well over a third are known from our region today. Fossil remains frequently can be recognized rather easily as belonging to the family, but identification to species often is difficult.
Last Update: 5 Feb 2013