Record details

:   26448
Province:   Limpopo
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2430BA
Observer:   Jessnitz V
Date of record:   2016-04-25
Number of photos:   1
Notes:  
Last updated:   2020-12-03 11:24:41
Sp. code:   141
Species name:   Aquila spilogaster
Common name:   African Hawk Eagle -- Grootjagarend
Family:   Accipitridae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:  
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=-26448
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
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Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Malcolm Robinson
Comment:  
Date:   2016-06-18 09:10:32
Species name:   Pernis apivorus -- European Honey-buzzard; Wespedief
Species code:   132
Comment number:   2
By:   Les Underhill
Comment:   Doug Harebottle (email to LGU 16 January 2017) "Pretty sure it's an African Hawk Eagle. Large dark trailing edge of wing and underwing patterns matches. Plus a thick terminal band on tail and tips of primaries are black. They are a fairly common Lowveld species. Only other possibility is pale form European Honey Buzzard (which also has a long tail) but it lacks the dark underwing patches and primaries have thicker black patch to them."
Date:   2017-04-08 12:08:41
Species name:   Aquila spilogaster -- African Hawk Eagle; Grootjagarend
Species code:   141

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