Eastern Chanting Goshawk - Taxonomy

Taxonomy

This species is intermediate between the smaller Dark Chanting Goshawk (widespread to the west and south) and the Pale Chanting Goshawk (southern Africa) in colour, size, and leg length, but not in range. It has often been considered a subspecies of the latter, but because of this disparity between geography and characters, it is now considered a separate species, as agreed by many authorities.