Buteo fluviaticus

† Buteo fluviaticus is an extinct hawk species of the genus Buteo, represented by Pleistocene fossils from the United States. The species epithet 'fluviaticus' suggests an association with riverine or floodplain environments. As a member of the soaring buteonine raptors, it likely hunted small mammals and birds over open wetland margins. Its fossils help document the diverse assemblage of large raptors present in North America during the Pleistocene.