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Dark chanting goshawk, the Glossary

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]

45 relations: Accipiter, Accipitridae, Angola, Arabian Peninsula, Baikiaea plurijuga, Beak, Biological specificity, Bird, Bird of prey, BirdLife International, Brachystegia, Buteo, Common dwarf mongoose, Common name, Congo Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dog, Eastern chanting goshawk, Ethiopia, Gabon, Helmeted guineafowl, Honey badger, Kapama Game Reserve, Mali, Mammal, Miombo, Mopane, Morocco, Muséum de Toulouse, Namibia, Pale chanting goshawk, Reptile, Saudi Arabia, Sclerocarya birrea, Senegal, Senegalia nigrescens, South Africa, Southern ground hornbill, Spider web, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Theodor von Heuglin, Yemen.
Birds of prey of Africa
Melierax
Taxa named by Theodor von Heuglin

Accipiter

Accipiter is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Accipitridae

The Accipitridae is one of the three families within the order Accipitriformes, and is a family of small to large birds of prey with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Baikiaea plurijuga

Baikiaea plurijuga, known as African teak, Mukusi, Rhodesian teak, Zambian teak or Zambesi redwood, is a species of Afrotropical tree from the legume family, the Fabaceae from southern Africa.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Biological specificity

Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird of prey

Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats.

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Brachystegia

Brachystegia is a genus of tree of the subfamily Detarioideae that is native to tropical Africa.

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Buteo

Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings.

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Common dwarf mongoose

The common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) is a mongoose species native to Angola, northern Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Zambia and East Africa.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Congo Basin

The Congo Basin (Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

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Eastern chanting goshawk

The eastern (pale) chanting goshawk (Melierax poliopterus), or Somali chanting goshawk, is a bird of prey of East Africa. Dark chanting goshawk and eastern chanting goshawk are Melierax.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Gabon

Gabon (Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.

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Helmeted guineafowl

The helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida.

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Honey badger

The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel, is a mammal widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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Kapama Game Reserve

Kapama Game Reserve (founded 1993) is a 13,000 hectare privately owned nature reserve in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Miombo

Miombo woodland is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (in the World Wide Fund for Nature scheme) located in central and southern tropical Africa.

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Mopane

Colophospermum mopane, commonly called mopane, mopani, balsam tree, butterfly tree, or turpentine tree, is a tree in the legume family (Fabaceae), that grows in hot, dry, low-lying areas, in elevation, in the far northern parts of Southern Africa.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Muséum de Toulouse

The Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Pale chanting goshawk

The pale chanting goshawk (Melierax canorus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Dark chanting goshawk and pale chanting goshawk are Melierax.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Sclerocarya birrea

Sclerocarya birrea (σκληρός, meaning "hard", and κάρυον, "nut", in reference to the stone inside the fleshy fruit), commonly known as the marula, is a medium-sized deciduous fruit-bearing tree, indigenous to the miombo woodlands of Southern Africa, the Sudano-Sahelian range of West Africa, the savanna woodlands of East Africa and Madagascar.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chanting_goshawk

Also known as Dark Chanting-Goshawk, Melierax metabates.

Dark chanting goshawk, the Glossary

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See also

Birds of prey of Africa

Melierax

Taxa named by Theodor von Heuglin

References