African cuckoo-hawk, African baza (Aviceda cuculoides) African Cuckoo-Hawk (Aviceda cuculoides) in flight. "I saw it and snapped off a picture, we thought it was an African Goshawk at the time, but looking at it in photoshop we realised it must be a Cuckoo-hawk. It was at Blyde River Canyon."
Date 14 September 2006, 09:49
Source African cuckoo hawk
Author Neil Crawford from Sweden http://www.flickr.com/people/22594688@N08
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Cuckoo-Hawk_(Aviceda_cuculoides)_in_flight.jpg
The African cuckoo-hawk, or African baza, (Aviceda cuculoides) is a medium-sized raptor in the family Accipitridae so named because it resembles the common cuckoo, which is found in sub-Saharan Africa and along the eastern parts of Southern Africa. It prefers dense woodland and forest of either indigenous or exotic trees.
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aviceda
Species: Aviceda cuculoides Swainson, 1837
