Dark chanting goshawk | |
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Adult at Kapama Game Reserve, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Genus: | Melierax |
Species: | M. metabates
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Binomial name | |
Melierax metabates Heuglin, 1861
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Subspecies[2] | |
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The dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which is found across much of sub-Saharan Africa and southern Arabia, with an isolated and declining population in southern Morocco.