African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
38 - 46 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Daudin, 1800)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (81)...)

African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro) [XC442057]
by Frank Lambert from uMhlathuze Municipality (near Richards Bay), (South) Uthungulu DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (call)

African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro) [XC516545]
by Louis A. Hansen from Funo camp, Chita Forest, southern Udzungwa Scarp, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii), with which often considered conspecific, but differs in size, coloration and characteristic display flight.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

unduliventer (R�ppell, 1836) - Ethiopian highlands.
croizati Desfayes, 1974 - South-western Ethiopia.
sparsimfasciatus (Reichenow, 1895) - Somalia, through eastern Africa, Zanzibar and south-eastern Zaire to northern Angola, northern Zambia, northern Malawi and northern Mozambique.
pembaensis Benson & Elliott, HFI, 1975 - Pemba I (Tanzania).
tachiro (Daudin, 1800) - Southern Angola, southern Zambia, southern Malawi and southern Mozambique south to South Africa.

References
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Files:

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