Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni), African cuckoo-hawk (Aviceda cuculoides)

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Subject:	Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni), African cuckoo-hawk (Aviceda cuculoides)
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Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni), African cuckoo-hawk (Aviceda cuculoides)

1. (above) Baza sumatrensis Lafr. = Aviceda jerdoni jerdoni (Blyth,1842)
2. (below) [Baza] cuculoides Sw. = Aviceda cuculoides cuculoides (Swainson, 1837)
English: Jerdon's Baza (above), African Cuckoo-hawk (below)
Date 1874
Source Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum (Vol. 1 Plate XI)
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (text)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BazaSumatrensisKeulemans.jpg

Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni) is a moderate sized brown hawk with a thin white-tipped black crest usually held erect. It is found in South-east Asia. It inhabits foothills in the terai and is rarer in evergreen forests and tea estates. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the surgeon-naturalist Thomas C. Jerdon.

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.

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