Adulto © Theresa Bucher
Inmaduro © Nigel Voaden
Adulto © Josh Engel
Inmaduro © Nigel Voaden

African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides

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Identificación

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Slim, long-winged, mid-sized raptor with oddly cuckoo-like markings. Has fairly weak, floppy flight and rarely soars. Generally uncommon species of thick savannah, woodland, and forest edge. Call is a long, mournful whistle. Although its shape is distinctive with practice, cuckoo-hawks can be confused with many other raptor species. Note the widely spaced rufous barring on the belly, and the small crest. Cuckoo-hawks are much slower and weaker fliers than any of the goshawks or sparrowhawks.

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