Goshawk, Dark Chanting 


Dark Chanting Goshawk - Melierax metabates metabates
The Gambia - November 2018

Although there are populations in Southern Morocco and Arabia, the bulk of the population of this species is found in Sub-Saharan Africa.  There are five subspecies of Dark Chanting Goshawk.  The range of this subspecies is the northern part of the Sub-Saharan range of the species, extending from Senegambia east to northern Tanzania.  The video framegrabs shown here are from a recording made in The Gambia during November 2018 - video link.



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