Dark Chanting Goshawk
Melierax metabates
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Genus
- Melierax
- eBird Code
- dacgos1
Subspecies (4)
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Melierax metabates ignoscens
southwestern Arabian Peninsula
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Melierax metabates mechowi
southeastern Gabon to Angola, southern Tanzania southward to northern Namibia and northeastern South Africa
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Melierax metabates metabates
Senegal and Mali eastward to northern Sudan and Ethiopia, and southward to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Tanzania
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Melierax metabates theresae
southwestern Morocco (critically endangered, if not extinct)
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.