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Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
Howell and Webb give this species as a resident along both slopes of northern Central America. I believe that it is also a migrant throughout the region as I have read several reports about big movements through Belize. I have seen this species on only a few occasions and never on the Pacific slope, where Howell and Webb say it is rare. My only sightings in Guatemala have been at Tikal and my only sightings in Honduras have been at Copan and Pico Bonito. During my first visit to Copan, in April, there were several of them hanging around the archaeological ruins, though I have not seen them there since. I suspect, without any evidence, that these may have been migrants passing through.