Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Aves
- --- order: Accipitriformes
- ---- family: Accipitridae
- ----- species: Melierax metabates
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Characteristics: | carnivore; body-length: 50-56 cm; grey plumage; bared white rump; grey secondariesred to orange bill and legs |
Countries: |
- ET
- Ethiopia
- GH
- Ghana
- GM
- Gambia
- IL
- Israel
- KE
- Kenya
- NA
- Namibia
- SD
- Sudan
- SZ
- Swaziland
- TZ
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- UG
- Uganda
- ZA
- South Africa
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Ecoregions: |
- AT0108
- East African montane forests
- AT0111
- Eastern Guinean forests
- AT0705
- East Sudanian savanna
- AT0707
- Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0711
- Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0714
- Serengeti volcanic grasslands
- AT0715
- Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0716
- Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0721
- Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0722
- West Sudanian savanna
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0907
- Zambezian flooded grasslands
- AT1007
- Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
- PA1303
- Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
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References: | Sinclair 1994: 84 |