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Melierax

Pale chanting goshawk (Melierax canorus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Accipitrinae
Genus:	Melierax G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Falco musicus 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:

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: 45cm Habitat: savannah, open woodland Diet: birds, small mammals, reptiles	LC
Pale chanting goshawk	Melierax canorus (Thunberg, 1799) Two subspecies M. c. argentior - Clancey, 1960 M. c. canorus - (Thunberg, 1799)	South Africa	Size: 55cm Habitat: desert Diet: small mammals and reptiles	LC
Eastern chanting goshawk	Melierax poliopterus Cabanis, 1868	East Africa	Size: 49 to 55cm Habitat: semi-desert, grassland Diet: lizards, smaller birds, insects	LC

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

References

"Accipitridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
"ITIS Report: Melierax". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 249. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

Data related to Melierax at Wikispecies

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incertae sedis

†Bermuteo †Garganoaetus
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Milvini	Haliastur Milvus

Taxon identifiers
Melierax	Wikidata: Q588704 Wikispecies: Melierax ADW: Melierax CoL: 5NQ5 GBIF: 2480729 iNaturalist: 5336 IRMNG: 1292950 ITIS: 175517 NCBI: 321114 Open Tree of Life: 901449 Paleobiology Database: 369646

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