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African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro)

African Goshawk
Photo: Dick Daniels (http://theworldbirds.org/) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the African Goshawk

The African goshawk (Aerospiza tachiro) is an African species of bird of prey in the genus Aerospiza. It was formerly placed in the genus Accipiter. The African goshawk was previously sometimes split with the red-chested goshawk (Aerospiza toussenelii) of west Africa treated as a separate species.

Source: African goshawk on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the African Goshawk. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:30) via xeno-canto.org/374358, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 94 recordings for this species in total.

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