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Accipiter tachiro (African Goshawk)

Synonyms: Falco tachiro (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The African goshawk (Accipiter tachiro) is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.
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Infraspecies

Accipiter tachiro canescens
Accipiter tachiro croizati
Accipiter tachiro pembaensis
Accipiter tachiro sparsimfasciatus
Accipiter tachiro tachiro
Accipiter tachiro unduliventer

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.83647
EDGE Score: 2.38292
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  272 grams
Birth Weight [2]  34 grams
Female Weight [1]  341 grams
Male Weight [1]  204 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  67.2 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  20 %
Diet - Endothermic [3]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  20 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  32 days
Incubation [4]  32 days
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [6]  73
Snout to Vent Length [1]  15 inches (39 cm)
Wing Span [4]  28 inches (.7 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Chaerephon pumilus (little free-tailed bat)[7]
Corythaeola cristata (Great Blue Turaco)[4]
Treron calvus (African Green Pigeon)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 7Chaerephon pumilus, Sylvie Bouchard, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 574, pp. 1-6 (1998)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0