Kites, Hawks, Eagles
African Harrier-Hawk
Polyboroides typus
The African Harrier-Hawk (Polyboroides typus) is a 633 g forest bird that eats mostly other vertebrates. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Kites, Hawks, Eagles
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Weight
- 633 g
- Habitat
- Forest
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 31
Recorded in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Gambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Zambia, Rwanda, Botswana, Namibia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Cameroon, Mozambique, Malawi, eSwatini, Liberia, Angola, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Eq. Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Lesotho, Central African Rep..
Where to see it: Tower Hill, Liberia, West Africa (Liberia); Hotel Source du Nil, Bujumbura BI-Bujumbura Rural (-3,3763,29,3585) (Burundi); Department of Agriculture's Gezira Research Station (Sudan); Wulki Farm (Liberia); Grand Hotel Djibloho (Equatorial Guinea).
Photo: Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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