Dark Chanting Goshawk

The Dark Chanting Goshawk is a slim and robust diurnal raptor, with wide, rounded wings at the tips, a long cuneiform tail and long legs. In terms of size, it is in the high average of Accipitrids. The female is larger than the male, as is generally the case with raptors. The upper parts of the adult are gray, bluish under the blue sky, with brown mottles on some feathers in sub-adults. The tail is black above and whitish barred underneath. The underside is finely barred in gray and white in small waves. Only the chin, throat and chest remain unified. The remiges are dark gray, clearly visible in flight and the underside of the wings is whitish gray. The contour of the eye is dark and the superciliary arch is very marked. The wax and tarsi are pink-orange. The tip of the bent and black beak is used to tear, skin and tear. The iris is dark brown. The gray color is absent in the young bird. It gradually appears in the immature. The juvenile plumage is generally oatmeal brown, edged with beige on the top. There is white at the base of the tail. The head, neck and chest have pale streaks. The flanks, belly, under-tail, trousers and under-wings are pale, clearly barred with warm brown, with finer bars on the trousers. The remiges and rectrices are light and clearly barred, finely for the wings, coarsely for the tail. The tarsi are orange-pink, the wax gray and the iris is yellow. At this stage, young ones can be confused with young Grey-winged Buzzards.