Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Dark Chanting-goshawk* |
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Melierax metabates |
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Description (10)
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Dark Chanting-goshawk
© flickr.com
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Other Names (World)
Dark Chanting-Goshawk, Chanting Goshawk, Dark Chanting Goshawk
Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)
Size
38 - 48 cm
First Described (Guide)
Heuglin, 1861
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 3,000 m.
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi (B) (NB), Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen (B) (NB), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Gabon, Israel, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 1,000,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)
Dark Chanting Goshawk (Melierax metabates) [XC280441]
by Peter Boesman from Pretoriuskop area, Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa (call)
Dark Chanting Goshawk (Melierax metabates) [XC715253]
by id from Al Fatiha, Gazan, Jazan, Saudi Arabia (call)
Subspecies
Probably forms superspecies with Pale Chanting-goshawk (Melierax canorus) and Eastern Chanting-goshawk (Melierax poliopterus).
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
- theresae Meinertzhagen, R, 1939 - South-western Morocco.
- neumanni Hartert, 1914 - Mali east to northern Sudan.
- ignoscens Friedmann, 1928 - South-western Arabian Peninsula.
- metabates Heuglin, 1861 - Senegambia east to Ethiopia and south to north-eastern Zaire and northern Tanzania.
- mechowi Cabanis, 1882 - Angola east to southern Tanzania and south to northern Namibia and north-eastern South Africa.
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
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