Long-tailed Hawk
Urotriorchis macrourus(Hartlaub, KJG, 1855)
English (US) Long-tailed Hawk
The Long-tailed Hawk (Urotriorchis macrourus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Accipitridae (Kites, Old World Vultures, Eagles, and Hawks) in the order Accipitriformes.
Range: Liberia to western Uganda and southern Democratic Republic of the CongoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Urotriorchis macrourus
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Long-tailed Hawk
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1855)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Astur macrourus
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1855)
- Type locality
- Dabocrom, Gold Coast.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 3, no.17 p.353
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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