White-rumped Hawk

White-rumped Hawk

Percnohierax leucorrhous

Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare
at Quito

In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%

23 Verified sightings at Quito
126 In all 3 parks From 2019 to 2026
September Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

Sounds

Flight call0:59

Ecuador · 2016

© Manuel Sánchez-Nivicela · XC1154753 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:19

Ecuador · 2025

© Marc Anderson · XC1000413 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Song0:33

Colombia · 2016

© Natalia Yepes · XC343838 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Itatiaia National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil
<5%
2 Los Nevados National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
<5%
3 Podocarpus National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Quito 🇪🇨 Ecuador
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a White-rumped Hawk in Quito?

Rare

Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White-rumped Hawk sighting in Quito on a given day, based on 23 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 124th most-seen of the 167 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a White-rumped Hawk in Quito?

Any time of year

In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White-rumped Hawk in Quito on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.

What time of day is best to see a White-rumped Hawk?

Between 8 and 11 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-rumped Hawk sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Where else can you see a White-rumped Hawk?

Only Quito, in our data

Quito is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-rumped Hawk sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Where does the White-rumped Hawk sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the White-rumped Hawk is recorded against all the birds logged in Quito (23 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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