Gray-bellied Goshawk in Costa Rica!

[birdingcraft]

Check out images of this juvenile Grey-bellied Goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster) from OTS la Selva, Costa Rica: http://pajareroscostarica.blogspot.com/
Very little known raptors so far only found in South America.
I never expected this one!

[Alex Lees]

Check out images of this juvenile Grey-bellied Goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster) from OTS la Selva, Costa Rica: http://pajareroscostarica.blogspot.com/
Very little known raptors so far only found in South America.
I never expected this one!

Great record, see here for some comparison images (http://www.freewebs.com/punkbirder/augustpart2.htm)of juv GBHawk and Ornate Hawk-eagle. Grey-bellied Hawk is indeed very poorly known and is thought to undertake long-distance movements within South America e.g. Bildstein et al. (2000) (http://hawkmountain.org/media/070.Bildstein%202000.pdf). A record(s) from Meso-America is thus less unlikely than it might apparently first seem.

cheers

Alex