-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Chordates (Phylum Chordata)

-Vertebrates (Subphylum Vertebrata)

-Birds (Class Aves)

-Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (Order Accipitriformes)

-Hawks, Eagles, and Kites (Family Accipitridae)

-Buteos (Genus Buteo)

-Grey Hawk (Buteo plagiatus)

Gray Hawks are small for a hawk in the genus Buteo. Adults are all pale grey with thin white bars on underparts. Tail is banded black and white. Feeds on a variety of small animals, many lizards and small birds, as well as snakes, rodents and other small mammals, frogs, and large insects. Found in shrubby riparian woodland. Usually seen singly.