Biology:Melierax

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Short description: Genus of birds

Melierax
Pale chanting goshawk (Melierax canorus)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Melieraxinae
Genus: Melierax
G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Falco musicus[1]
Daudin, 1800

Melierax is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Established by George Robert Gray in 1840, it contains the following species:[2]

Genus Melierax – G.R. Gray, 1840 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Dark chanting goshawk

Melierax metabates
Heuglin, 1861

Five subspecies
  • M. m. metabates: Senegal and the Gambia east to Ethiopia, south to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Tanzania.
  • M. m. neumanni: Mali east to northern Sudan.
  • M. m. theresae: south west Morocco.
  • M. m. ignoscens: South western Arabia, i.e. south western Saudi Arabia and western Yemen.
  • M. m. mechowi: south eastern Gabon to Angola, south Tanzania south to northern Namibia and north eastern South Africa .
sub-Saharan Africa, but avoids the rainforest of the Congo basin and the far south Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Pale chanting goshawk

Melierax canorus
(Thunberg, 1799)

Two subspecies
  • M. c. argentior - Clancey, 1960
  • M. c. canorus - (Thunberg, 1799)
South Africa Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Eastern chanting goshawk

Melierax poliopterus
Cabanis, 1868 		Andes ; southern Atlantic forest Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



The name Melierax is a combination of the Greek words melos, meaning "song" and hierax, meaning "hawk".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Accipitridae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=36. 
  2. ↑ "ITIS Report: Melierax". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=175517. Retrieved 21 November 2014. 
  3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 249. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling. 

Wikidata ☰ Q588704 entry




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