The first picture has been made by Foek Chin Joe in Waterland
near Domburg in Suriname (2004). Then a photo made by Erik
Toorman at the campus of the Adek University in June 2007, one by
Dominiek Plouvier, in Coronie Suriname the next one by Steven
Wytema and then one by Dennis Binda (2008), all made in Suriname.
Below the text are more pictures.
The bird is very often heard mewing
and is indeed very common along the edge of the roads in the
coastal region and in savanna areas. It sits on on a high point,
often in trees, on the look-out for small prey like lizards and
insects. According to Penard it breeds mainly from March to May,
but a nest has also been found by Renssen in February and in
December by Haverschmidt. It resembles another common bird of
prey: the gray hawk, but the roadside
hawk has more color on wings and breast and no white throat. This
is another sound of the Roadside
hawk. Below is a photo made by Pascal Dubois in French Guyane
in 2002 and below that pictures by Pieter Verheij and KD
Dijkstra, from Suriname.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna |  |
| Forests |  |
| Mountain forests |  |
| Sipalawini savanna | |
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Many more pictures of birds of prey in Suriname