Belize,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,Guatemala,Guyana,Honduras,Mexico, Nicaragua,Panama,Peru,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Trinidad and Tobago,United States - mainland,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies
Group
Subspecies
Breeding Range
anthracinus
sw USA to n South America, Trinidad and St. Vincent
(Deppe, 1830): NOTE(TAX: Buteogallus anthracinus includes the Mangrove Black Hawk B. subtilis as a subspecies (Clark 2007; SACC 294; NACC).)
German
Krabbenbussard
French
Buse noire
Chinese
黑鸡鵟
Japanese
クロノスリ
Russian
Чёрный крабовый канюк
Spanish
Busardo negro
Portuguese
gavião-caranguejeiro-negro
Bird Data App text
A crab-eater and usually seen in mangrove forests or along the coast. Similar to but much smaller than the [Great Black Hawk]. Immature brown like immature [Great Black Hawk].
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)