Dark chanting goshawk

Dark chanting goshawk
Adult at Kapama Game Reserve, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Melierax
Species:
M. metabates
Binomial name
Melierax metabates
Heuglin, 1861
Subspecies[2]
  • M. m. theresae - Meinertzhagen, R, 1939
  • M. m. ignoscens - Friedmann, 1928
  • M. m. metabates - Heuglin, 1861
  • M. m. mechowi - Cabanis, 1882
M. m. metabates, The Gambia

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.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Melierax metabates". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22695425A93509104. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22695425A93509104.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Accipiter tachiro". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22727697A95230244. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22727697A95230244.en. Retrieved 10 December 2020.