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 LC    Lizard Buzzard* Id (Atlas):
    Kaupifalco monogrammicus

Description (10)
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Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
30 - 37 cm
Wingspan: 63 - 79 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1824)

Habitat
Dry savanna. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, rural gardens, arable land.

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, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is 4,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Mainly reptiles, large insects. Also, small mammals and birds.

Voice
A whistled 'klu-klu-klu'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (34)...)

 
Lizard Buzzard (Kaupifalco monogrammicus) [XC508952]
     by isaac kilusu from Mbulo forest, North-western province, Zambia (call)

 
Lizard Buzzard (Kaupifalco monogrammicus) [XC142221]
     by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Botanical Gardens, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • monogrammicus (Temminck, 1824)   -  Senegambia east to Ethiopia and south to Uganda and Kenya.
  • meridionalis (Hartlaub, 1860)   -  Southern Kenya south to northern South Africa and west to Angola and northern Namibia.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Lizard Buzzard (Kaupifalco monogrammicus) - 10 files


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