African Baza (Aviceda cuculoides)

Other Names (World)
African Cuckoo-hawk, African Baza, Cuckoo-falcon, African Cuckoo-falcon

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
40 cm

First Described (Guide)
Swainson, 1837

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, dry savanna, plantations. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi (B), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea (B), Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Botswana.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

African Cuckoo-Hawk (Aviceda cuculoides) [XC718866]
by Alain Verneau from Atewa Farmbush, Sagyimase, Ghana (call)

African Cuckoo-Hawk (Aviceda cuculoides) [XC96409]
by Peter Boesman from Tanga Region: Handeni District; 4 km south Magambazi Forest Reserve, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Madagascar Cuckoo-hawk (Aviceda madagascariensis), and possibly also with Jerdon's Baza (Aviceda jerdoni) and Pacific Baza (Aviceda subcristata).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

cuculoides Swainson, 1837 - Woodland from Senegal east to south-western Ethiopia and south to Nigeria and northern Zaire.
batesi (Swann, 1920) - Lowland rain forest from Sierra Leone east to eastern Uganda and south to northern Angola.
verreauxii Lafresnaye, 1846 - Woodland and coastal, riparian and montane forest from Kenya south to northern Namibia and South Africa.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for African Baza (Aviceda cuculoides) - 10 files

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