00:00I've come to the village of Los Limones near the center of the Dominican Republic and when you
00:07enter the village this is the first thing you see a gorgeous mural of a hawk and apparently
00:12the kids baseball team is also named after this bird of prey so obviously it means a lot to the
00:18people here and I've come here to find out why. The Ridgeways Hawk or El Gavilan as it's locally
00:27known can only be found on this island and with less than 500 left in the wild it's one of the
00:33most critically endangered raptors in the world. Just 40 centimeters tall it's a compact stealth
00:41hunter perfectly adapted to catch prey in dense forest. Unlike most hawks that hover and soar
00:49it sits on low branches waiting to dive on unsuspecting snakes and small reptiles below.
00:57You
