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title: "Hinduweih"
description: "Aviceda jerdoni — Vögel. Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni) is a moderate sized brown hawk with a thin white-tipped black crest usually held erect."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/jerdon-s-baza
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Hinduweih

> Aviceda jerdoni — Vögel. Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni) is a moderate sized brown hawk with a thin white-tipped black crest usually held erect.

- Scientific name: *Aviceda jerdoni*
- Category: `birds` (Vögel)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald)
- iNaturalist observations: 958
- Wikidata: [Q605698](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q605698)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5264](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5264)

## Names

- en: Jerdon's Baza
- de: Hinduweih
- es: Baza Oriental
- fr: Baza de Jerdon
- nl: Jerdons koekoekswouw
- pt: Baza-parda
- pl: Czubak brunatny

## Countries with the most observations

MY (253), TH (211), SG (175), IN (136), CN (51), VN (30), KH (17), ID (10), PH (10), BD (7), BT (4), LK (4)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerdon%27s_baza

## Photo

![Hinduweih](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/jerdon-s-baza/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/302549184

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/jerdon-s-baza?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).