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Where does the Dark Chanting-Goshawk live?

Melierax metabates has 30,007 records in 45 countries and territories, from 1877 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

Dark Chanting-Goshawk
Dark Chanting-Goshawk β€” Photo: Originally posted to Flickr as [1] *uploaded to commons as Melierax_metabates_-Kapama_Game_Reserve,_South_Africa-8.jpg: I Love Trees derivative work: Snowmanradio (talk) Β· CC BY 2.0 Β· Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeMelierax

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18772026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
South Africa 8,399
Tanzania 3,664
Gambia 3,591
Uganda 2,763
Kenya 2,342
Ethiopia 1,908
Senegal 1,006
Ghana 871
Namibia 855
Nigeria 794
Zimbabwe 767
Zambia 746
Botswana 640
Mozambique 352
Benin 164
Cameroon 109
Angola 106
Malawi 103
Chad 99
Burkina Faso 92
South Sudan 69
Eswatini 69
Niger 59
DR Congo 51
Yemen 51
Sudan 48
Guinea 46
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 39
Mali 33
Central African Republic 28
Guinea-Bissau 27
Gabon 21
Eritrea 19
Saudi Arabia 19
Mauritania 15
Congo 14
Morocco 6
Djibouti 5
Togo 5
Israel 3

Showing the top 40 of 45 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.