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- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
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Decreasing (Ferguson-Lees & Christie 2001 in BirdLife International 2011)
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Under any of the phylogenetic species concepts (Louette 2010), some authorities (like Sinclair & Ryan 2003) prefer to split African Goshawk into two species: African Goshawk A. tachiro sensu stricto and ‘Red-chested Goshawk’ A. toussenelii.
According to molecular analyses by Louette’s team JEMU of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) at Tervuren in Belgium, it appears that it is justified, based on molecular phylogenetic arguments as well as genetic distance between the species to consider A. toussenelii and A. tachiro separate species (Breman et al. 2013).
A. tachiro has been DNA barcoded; there is a DNA barcode available for the type specimen stored at the RMCA. A. tachiro has been studied in phylogenetic studies as well (Griffiths et al. 2007).
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Population Trend
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Forests and savanna woodlands. Occurs from sea level up to 3700 m (Ferguson-Lees & Christie 2001).
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Habitat loss and pesticides (Ferguson-Lees & Christie 2001 in BirdLife International 2011)
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 2 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Throughout most of its range, the dark-chanting goshawk is widespread and common and therefore not globally threatened (2) (8). However, some of the isolated populations, such as those occurring in Morocco and the Arabian Peninsula, are extremely vulnerable to clearance of woodland (2). In particular the subspecies Melierax metabates theresae, confined to Morocco, is thought to be on the point of extinction due to deforestation and human predation (6)
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The black goshawk occupies nearly all types of forest within its range, from tropical lowlands to high mountain patches at elevations of up to 3,700 metres (2) (4). This species will also readily colonise plantations of exotic trees such as eucalyptus and pine, and may even be found in towns and cities (4) (6).
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Although the main threat to the black goshawk is deforestation, at present it is extremely abundant and unlikely to be undergoing a significant decline (1) (4). The black goshawk's ability to adapt to secondary forest and exotic plantations also means that, unlike many species, it has benefitted from the increasing levels of commercial afforestation, and the resulting introduction of exotic trees, which are occurring in certain parts of Africa (6).
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