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Scientific Name: Melierax metabates
Common Name: Dark chanting goshawk
Description: Grey wing with black tip, look a lot like the Pale chanting Goshawk, just a bit darker.
Distribution: Tropical Africa to the Northern parts of South Africa, Botswana and Namibia
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Average Weight of Adult male: 670g
Habitat: Woodland and Savannah
Habits: Solitary or in pairs. Usually perches on top of trees, scanning ground for prey.
Main feeding time: Feed by day
Size: 45 to 56 cm total length, wingspan about 100 cm
Breeding: July to December
Number of young at birth: usually only one chick reared
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Diet: Insects, lizards, snakes, birds up to the size of  a guinea fowl, small mammals squirrel and smaller and carrion
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