Orange-Breasted Falcon

When researching birds of Tikal NP I came across the orange-breasted falcon, a bird I'd never heard of. An AI overview indicated that Tikal was "one of the few known, reliable nesting sites for the rare and near-threatened" bird. Temple IV has a nesting site "making Tikal a premier location for spotting this raptor." I was looking forward to seeing Temple IV for that reason. I took a long distance photo of Temple IV and showed it to Rony, with a bird standing on top. He said it was a black vulture. As we hiked closer to Temple IV Rony pointed to a spot and told me to focus my lens to the left of the top. I did and couldn't see it. But I took a number of photos and then enlarged them looking for it. I was shocked when on one of the photos the falcon stood out much larger than I'd anticipated. As I got home and looked through my photos I realized that the reason this one stood out was because it was head up and looking toward me. 

It has a black head, bluish black upperparts and a paler blue-gray edge on the feathers. The throat and sides of the neck are white and the upper breast is rufous orange extending onto the side of the neck. The lower breast is black with reddish brown bars. The belly, thighs and undertail coverts are also rufous orange. The cere, the bare skin around the eye, the legs and feet are yellow to dull bluish green. 

Illustration from Birds of the World. 

The two range maps I show are very different from each other. This one is from Birds of the World. 

This one is from Wikipedia and shows a much sparser distribution in South America, but a larger distribution in Central America. It is only found locally throughout its range with most observations, like mine, from a few well-known nesting locations. It is not considered common anywhere, but its abundance and distribution are clouded by confusion with the very similar, but smaller, bat falcon.