Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro) - HBW 2, p. 146
French: Autour tachiro
German: Afrikahabicht
Spanish: Azor Tachiro
Taxonomy: Falco tachiro Daudin, 1800, Knysna district, Cape Province, South Africa.
Forms superspecies with A. toussenelii, with which often considered conspecific, but differs in size, coloration and characteristic display flight. Five subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- unduliventer (Rüppell, 1836) - Ethiopian highlands.
- croizati Desfayes, 1974 - SW Ethiopia.
- sparsimfasciatus (Reichenow, 1895) - Somalia, through E Africa, Zanzibar and SE Zaire to N Angola, N Zambia, N Malawi and N Mozambique.
- unduliventer (Rüppell, 1836) - Ethiopian highlands.
- croizati Desfayes, 1974 - SW Ethiopia.
- sparsimfasciatus (Reichenow, 1895) - Somalia, through E Africa, Zanzibar and SE Zaire to N Angola, N Zambia, N Malawi and N Mozambique.
- pembaensis Benson & Elliott, 1975 - Pemba I (Tanzania).
- tachiro (Daudin, 1800) - S Angola, S Zambia, S Malawi and S Mozambique S to South Africa.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on top of a tree, calling. Locality Goba, Ethiopia (ssp unduliventer)
Josep del Hoyo 8 December 2005 6 years ago 40 sec 3.2 -
rear view of perched juvenile Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp sparsimfasciatus)
Martin Kennewell 5 June 2004 43 weeks ago 21 sec 2
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A perched adult male.
Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Ken Havard 9 November 2011 4 days ago ADDED LAST WEEK 3.2 -
Dorsal view of a perched bird.
Locality Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
Ken Havard 19 October 2007 1 year ago 3 -
A bird perched on a branch
Locality Cotswold Falconry, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England, Great Britain
Johannes Pfleiderer 18 August 2006 2 years ago 3
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