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The Black and White Hawk-Eagle

Searching for the black and white hawk-eagle... You can either take a boat taxi south from Puerto Vallarta for two hours to get to the little beach village of Yelapa, or come down a dirt road carved out of the ochre soil that winds its way through a tropical forest. Down the volcanic ridges is the habitat of one of Mexico's most exotic raptors. The trip takes about four hours and the winding road is full of tight turns with no guardrails to protect a vehicle from slipping over the steep edges. After two recent hurricanes, the road has been recently restored as the rains made it completely impassible. Our guide, Fernando Romo, had recently seen both the black and white hawk-eagle (Spizaetus melanoleucus) and the black hawk-eagle (Spizaetus tryannus) soaring over the steep ridges that delineate the southern border of Yelapa. It was here that he was hoping to show us both hawk-eagles again. We failed to see them at the highest points of the ridge line where we first stopped to look for them. It was probably too early yet and the thermal currents weren't real active, so we slowly made our way down the twisting road and about 300 feet above the beach floor as we rounded a sharp turn, this beauty was perched in the tree. Despite flying off, the raptor did not venture far. In fact, it circled around and returned to look at the stunned humans. It showed a curiosity about us on the ground while perched 60-75 feet above in the canopy. Initially, it looked like a goshawk with that very long tail...an exotic goshawk for sure and a stunning find!