African goshawk [SEP] parent taxon
African goshawk
The African goshawk ("Accipiter tachiro") is a species of African bird of prey in the genus "Accipiter" which is the type genus of the family Accipitridae.
Description.
The African goshawk is a medium-sized to large "Accipiter" which is mainly grey and rufous with the typical broad winged and long tailed shape of its genus. The adult has grey upperparts which tend to be darker in males than in females, the underparts are whitish marked with rufous barring which is more rufous
national recovery plan for the taxon it is treated as a subspecies of the brown goshawk, though the possibility has been raised of elevating it to the species level again. Christidis and Boles (2008) treat it as a subspecies of the variable goshawk ("A. hiogaster"). Here it is treated as a subspecies of the brown goshawk pending further study of its genome.
Description.
The Christmas goshawk is smaller and has more rounded wings than the nominate subspecies. Colouration is broadly similar, differing in that the