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The Bermuda hawk (Bermuteo avivorus) is an extinct bird of prey that was endemic to Bermuda. It was the sole member of the genus Bermuteo. == Taxonomy and naming == The species was described in 2008 by American biologist and ornithologist Storrs Lovejoy Olson (1944-2021), who appointed it under the scientific name, Bermuteo avivorus. Bermuteo here is an amalgam of Bermuda and Buteo, an Accipitrid genus which includes various hawk and buzzard species. The species name, avivorus, refers to bird-catching behaviour. == Distribution == The Bermuda hawk inhabited the island of Bermuda where the subfossil remains of the species were discovered in quaternary deposits. While the subfossil remains are present in multiple deposits on Bermuda, they are scarcely uncovered. During Olson's initial description of the species in 2008, he notes that even after "25 years of collecting" the bird's remains were "frustratingly few". Olson's sample consisted of seven bones recovered from four or five localities on Bermuda, of which only three were complete (femur, humerus, and tibiotarsi), representing a maximum of just six individuals. Prior to human settlement and encroachment, Bermuda was rich in native evergreen forests of Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana) and palmetto (Sabal bermudana) which may have served as habitat for the species. Information pertaining to the preferred habitat of the bermuda hawk as well as its ecology were never recorded in contemporary accounts, and as a result, little can be inferred.