| Jamaican red-tailed hawk | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Buteo |
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| Subspecies: | B. j. jamaicensis
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| Trinomial name | |
| Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1788)
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The Jamaican red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis) is the nominate subspecies of the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), a bird of prey of North America. The subspecies B. j. jamaicensis occurs in the northern West Indies, including Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles, but not the Bahamas or Cuba, where it is replaced by the Cuban red-tailed hawk (B. j. solitudinis). El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico, holds some of the highest known density of Jamaican red-tailed hawks.[1] The bird is referred to as a guaraguao (a Taino term) in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.[2][3]
- ^ The Lords of the Air. Kingsnake.com. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
- ^ Guaraguao Colirrojo on AvesPR.org
- ^ Guaraguao colirrojo on EdicionesDigitales