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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.

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) [XC589156]
     by Peter Boesman from University Campus, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria (?)

 
Dark Chanting Goshawk (Melierax metabates) [XC425423]
     by Sun Madakan from Kiang West, Lower River, Gambia (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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