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Harrier-Hawks

Polyboroides

Polyboroides is a genus of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. This genus has two recognized species found in Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. The two species are allopatric and restricted to the Afrotropic ecozone. They are generally known as harrier-hawks.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

African Harrier-Hawk

speciesPolyboroides typus

Madagascar Harrier-Hawk

speciesPolyboroides radiatus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 5245.