Dark chanting goshawk
| Dark chanting goshawk | |
|---|---|
| Adult at Kapama Game Reserve, South Africa | |
| Scientific 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 | |
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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.