- Polyboroides typus
Description
Location: Marakissa, Western Division, The Gambia, West Africa
Identification
African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene) Polyboroides typus RANGE Sub-Saharan Africa: widespread from Senegal to central Ethiopia and south to the Cape and absent only from the most arid areas of the Horn of Africa and the south-west. Resident, possibly nomadic in some areas and fairly common in much of range.
HABITAT Forest, woodland, grassland with scattered trees and cultivated land.
SUBSPECIES Two-three subspecies are recognised: nominate in eastern and southern Africa and the smaller, darker and more heavily barred pectoralis in West and Central Africa. Smaller and darker birds from western Zaire are sometimes separated as prigoginei.
Photographed near Lake Zwai, Ethiopia
