Madagascan harrier-hawk (Polyboroides radiatus)

Query: Accipitridae

Result: 121^st of 798

Subject:	Madagascan harrier-hawk (Polyboroides radiatus)
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Description Autour joues-nues, adulte.
Date 1838
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6286234864
Author Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon; Nicholas Huet; Guillaume Michel Jerôme Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse; J. G. Prêtre; C. J. Temminck
Full title Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux : pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 /
BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35245669
Flickr sets Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux v.1.
taxonomy:binomial Polyboroides radiatus
taxonomy:common Madagascar harrier hawk
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nouveau_recueil_de_planches_colori%C3%A9es_d%27oiseaux_(6286234864).jpg

The Madagascan harrier-hawk (Polyboroides radiatus) is a very large species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is endemic to Madagascar an island off the coast of Africa. The Madagascan harrier-hawk is a largish raptor with long and broad wings which when folded almost reach to the tip of the tail. It has a black, luxurious tail with a single broad grey band bisecting the black half way along its length, adult birds are grey above with blackish flight feathers.

Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Polyboroides
Species: Polyboroides radiatus (Scopoli, 1786)

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