Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Dark Chanting Goshawk
Melierax metabates
The Dark Chanting Goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a 675 g scrub bird that eats mostly other vertebrates. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Kites, Hawks, Eagles
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Weight
- 675 g
- Habitat
- Shrubland
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 31
Recorded in South Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique, Benin, Angola, Cameroon, Malawi, Sudan, Chad, Burkina Faso, S. Sudan, eSwatini, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Mali, Guinea-Bissau.
Where to see it: Auto selected 5.28882, 35.82904 (South Sudan); Malakal POC, Upper Nile, SS (South Sudan); Awash NP · southern section (Ethiopia); Sanbrado (Burkina Faso); Awash NP (Please use more specific hotspot) (Ethiopia).
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