#polyboroides

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African Harrier Hawk (Polyboroides typus), family Accipitridae, Kruger National Park, South Africa

photograph by Thinus Van Staden

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[64/10,976] African Harrier-Hawk - Polyboroides typus

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae Genus: Polyboroides (harrier-hawks)

Photo credit: Guenther Karmann via Macaulay Library

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/184760266] African Harrier-Hawk || Polyboroides typus Observed in Kenya

[siravalon]

Bird of the Week: The African Harrier-Hawk! 🪶

The African Harrier-Hawk (Polyboroides typus) is a raptor that can be found in rainforest areas of western Africa. They are opportunists by nature, and will feed on insects, small mammals, other birds’ eggs, and small reptiles.

A unique feature of the African Harrier-Hawk is its flexibility as a hunter. They can be observed clinging and hanging from branches, cliffs and nests, allowing themselves to reach hard to access prey and raid nests.

African Harrier-Hawks are members of the genus Polyboroides, harrier-hawks. There is one other known species in this genus: the Madagascar Harrier-Hawk.

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Remarkable Raptor

Reportedly at least three African Harrier Hawks (Polyboroides typus – previously called Gymnogenes) have recently been shot in the Greater Hermanus urban area.

[a-disaster-piece]

IT HAPPENED AGAIN!! Just as I was making coffee...the local African Harrier Hawk / Gymnogene was circling over the garden! 🦅 Parden the zoomed/blurry shot, poor chap was getting mobbed by Pied Crows, Hadeda Ibises, Fork-tailed Drongos, & Red-winged Starlings...until it rode the thermals higher up & over, out of sight. #africanharrierhawk #gymnogene #hawk #raptor #birdsofprey #birds #birding #nevernotbirding #birdingfromhome #birdtherapy #Polyboroides #accipiter #inflight #birdwatching #birds #birdsofsouthafrica #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography (at Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBv0u9cAHne/?igshid=1bnu3fbn38r2r

[mandarb]

African Harrier Hawk or Gymnogene, Polyboroides typus

Flew over my house about half an hour ago. Grabbed my camera and ran out, got a few shots before it went out of sight.

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African Harrier Hawk (Polyboroides typus)

The African harrier hawk is one of only two birds of prey that has double-jointed knees. It uses these joints to hunt animals in cracks and holes in cliffsides and trees. One of its favored foods is the sociable weaver (Geranospiza caerulescen), which creates massive nests with other members of its species. Nom nom nom.

Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1928.

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African Harrier Hawk 1

African Harrier Hawk 1

… or Gymnogene (Polyboroides typus)

[herpsandbirds]

African Harrier Hawk (Polyboroides typus), family Accipitridae, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

photograph by Jenny Varley

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biomedicalephemera: African Harrier Hawk (Polyboroides... http://bit.ly/30ivoy5

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170586332] African Harrier-Hawk || Polyboroides typus Observed in South Africa Least Concern in location of observation

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African Harrier-Hawk (Polyboroides typus) in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, KZN.

Source: https://bit.ly/2XlcCqr

[koval-ptaki]

101) Owadożer Madagaskarski, Madagascan harrier-hawk (Polyboroides radiatus) - to bardzo duży gatunek drapieżnego ptaka z rodziny Accipitridae, endemiczny na Madagaskarze.

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Polyboroides typus young 1838 - high resolution image from old book.

[mandarb]

African Harrier-Hawk (Polyboroides typus). Taken in Pilanesberg National Park