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 LC    Eastern Chanting-Goshawk* Id (Atlas):
    Melierax poliopterus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Eastern Chanting-Goshawk, Eastern Pale Chanting-Goshawk, Somali Chanting-Goshawk, Eastern Chanting Goshawk

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
61 cm

First Described (Guide)
Cabanis, 1869

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

South-eastern Ethiopia and Somalia south to eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania.
 
Population
Estimated population is 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

 
Eastern Chanting Goshawk (Melierax poliopterus) [XC774140]
     by id from Samburu National Reserve, Samburu County, Kenya (begging call)

 
Eastern Chanting Goshawk (Melierax poliopterus) [XC510246]
     by isaac kilusu from Tarangire National Park, Manyara, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Pale Chanting-goshawk (Melierax canorus) and Eastern Chanting-Goshawk (Melierax poliopterus) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include poliopterus as a subspecies of Pale Chanting-goshawk (Melierax canorus).

Probably forms superspecies with Pale Chanting-goshawk (Melierax canorus) and Dark Chanting-goshawk (Melierax metabates) and sometimes considered conspecific with Pale Chanting-goshawk (Melierax canorus), but well separated geographically.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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