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 LC    Dark Chanting-goshawk* Id (Atlas):
    Melierax metabates

Description (10)
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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.

Range (Guide)
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:
JPG files for Dark Chanting-goshawk (Melierax metabates) - 10 files


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