African Harrier-Hawk

Polyboroides typus - Gymnogène d'Afrique

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Accipitriformes

  • Family
    :

    Accipitridés

  • Genus
    :

    Polyboroides

  • Species
    :

    typus

Descriptor

Smith, A, 1829

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 65 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 118 à 152 cm.
  • Weight
    : 635 à 950 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

African Harrier-Hawk (Polyboroides typus) is a species of bird in the Accipitridae family.

Subspecific information 2 subspecies

  • Polyboroides typus typus (Sudan to East Africa south to Angola and South Africa)
  • Polyboroides typus pectoralis (Senegal and Gambia to Gabon and the DRCongo)

Foreign names

  • Gymnogène d'Afrique,
  • Aguilucho caricalvo común,
  • gavião-secretário-africano,
  • Höhlenweih,
  • afrikai odúhéja,
  • Kaalkopkiekendief,
  • Gimnogene africano,
  • afrikansk klätterhök,
  • Klatrehauk,
  • kutraňa dutinárka,
  • jestřábec pochopovitý,
  • Afrikansk Klatrehøg,
  • rosvohaukka,
  • Kaalwangvalk,
  • arpella d'antifaç africana,
  • owadożer palmowy,
  • Африканский лунёвый ястреб,
  • チュウヒダカ,
  • 非洲鬣鹰,
  • 獵鷹,

Voice song and cries

Gymnogène d'Afrique
adult

Habitat

Gymnogène d'Afrique
adult

Forest : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland ; Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls) ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Plantations, Urban Areas, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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