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Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle Spizastur melanoleucus
This species is quite widely distributed throughout the neotropics, but it is very rare over this entire range. I have twice seen this species and both times it was in Pico Bonito on the north coast of Honduras. The first sighting was on the Rio Zacate and the second was a long distance view of a bird soaring over the hills above Pico Bonito Lodge. Apparently this species requires unbroken forest, so is unlikely to be found in areas where there are no longer large tracts of forest. Howell and Webb include the whole of the Caribbean slope and the Pacific slope of Guatemala within the range of this species, though they state that they are uncommon to rare throughout.