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Red-tailed Hawks in the Caribbean will improve 
our understanding of the ecological role of this 
upper level predator in the terrestrial ecosystems 
of the Greater Antilles. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
\\e are grateful to the U.S. Fish and Wildlite Service. 
L'SDA Forest Service, Puerto Rico Department ol Natural 
and Environmental Resources, and USGS Biological 
Resources for financial and logistic support. We thank K 
A. Jacobson and M. M. Rivera for field assistance. We are 
indebted to the USDA Forest Service’s International 
Institute of Tropical Forestry for access to climate data 
and digital land cover. The manuscript was greatly 
improved by comments from two anonymous reviewers. 
Animal capture and handling procedures were conducted 
under permits EPE-010 from the Puerto Rico Department of 
Natural and Environmental Resources. USCiS Bird Banding 
Laboratory Master Station Permit # 22456. and protocol # 
00-093 of the Mississippi Slate University Institutional 
Animal Care and Use Committee. The use of trade names 
or products does not constitute endorsement b\ the U.S. 
Government. 
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