Immature © Holger Teichmann
Adult © Antero Topp
Immature © Bruce Ward-Smith
Adult © Laurent Demongin
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Adult © Christoph Moning
Adult © Alexander Lees

Pale Chanting-Goshawk Melierax canorus

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Identification

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A tall, long-tailed, pewter-gray hawk with pink-orange legs and bill base. In flight the wing pattern is strongly contrasting, with pale inner hind wings and a dark tip. Pairs inhabit thornveld, steppe, and desert below 2000 m. Chanting-goshawks give a strong gull-like “kleeeu” call, hence their name. Dark Chanting-Goshawk prefers moister woodland, has darker flight feathers creating a uniformly colored wing, and always has a gray-barred rump; Pale Chanting-Goshawk is paler, with pale panels in the wings and an unbarred white rump.

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