---
title: "Donkere zanghavik"
description: "Melierax metabates — Vogels. The dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which is found across much of sub-Saharan Africa and southern Arabia, with an isolated and declining population in southern Morocco."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/dark-chanting-goshawk
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Donkere zanghavik

> Melierax metabates — Vogels. The dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which is found across much of sub-Saharan Africa and southern Arabia, with an isolated and declining population in southern Morocco.

- Scientific name: *Melierax metabates*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savanne)
- iNaturalist observations: 1686
- Wikidata: [Q843278](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q843278)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5340](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5340)

## Names

- en: Dark Chanting-Goshawk
- de: Graubürzel-Singhabicht
- es: Azor lagartijero oscuro
- fr: Autour sombre
- nl: Donkere zanghavik
- pt: Açor-cantador
- pl: Jastrzębiak ciemny

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (448), TZ (319), ET (110), GM (109), UG (100), KE (95), BJ (57), ZW (48), NG (46), SN (34), MZ (25), BW (24)

## Summary

The dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which is found across much of sub-Saharan Africa and southern Arabia, with an isolated and declining population in southern Morocco.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chanting_goshawk

## Photo

![Donkere zanghavik](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dark-chanting-goshawk/medium.jpg)

Photo: Erwin Sieben · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197469863

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dark-chanting-goshawk?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).