Black-chested buzzard-eagle

Black-chested buzzard-eagle
Adult male G. m. australis showing the contrasting underside plumage. In the nominate subspecies, the contrast is even stronger due to the pure white belly.
Note short grey-tipped tail.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Geranoaetus
Species:
G. melanoleucus
Binomial name
Geranoaetus melanoleucus
(Vieillot, 1819)
Range of Geranoaetus melanoleucus
Synonyms

Buteo fuscescens (Vieillot, 1819)
Buteo melanoleucus (Vieillot, 1819; non Vieillot, 1816: preoccupied)
Spizaetus fuscescens Vieillot, 1819
Spizaetus melanoleucus Vieillot, 1819 (non Vieillot, 1816: preoccupied)
but see text

"Buteo melanoleucus" redirect here. This name is also the name that the black-and-white hawk-eagle was first described under.

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.

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