Prakruti Parichay
AccipitridaeAviceda

Black Baza

Aviceda leuphotes

33–33 cmMedium
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
Has a crest

Resident. Himalayan foothills, NE and S India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Largely black, with long crest, white breast-band, rufous barring on underparts, and greyish underside to primaries contrasting with black underwing-coverts. Wings are broad and rounded and tail medium length. Flight corvid like, interspersed with short glides on flat wings. Male has more extensive patch of white on upperwing (extending onto secondaries) compared with female. Vole, A loud, shrill, high-pitched tcheeoua, often repeated. Rather crepuscular. Groups of up to five may be seen circling over forest. Tropical broadleaved evergreen forest with glades or broad streams running through.

Colour

BlackWhiteRufous / Red-brownGrey
Average size
33 cm
Habitat
Groups of up to five may be seen circling over forest. Tropical broadleaved evergreen forest with glades or broad streams running through.
Behaviour
Resident., Rather crepuscular.

About this bird

Resident. Himalayan foothills, NE and S India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Largely black, with long crest, white breast-band, rufous barring on underparts, and greyish underside to primaries contrasting with black underwing-coverts. Wings are broad and rounded and tail medium length. Flight corvid like, interspersed with short glides on flat wings. Male has more extensive patch of white on upperwing (extending onto secondaries) compared with female. Vole, A loud, shrill, high-pitched tcheeoua, often repeated. Rather crepuscular. Groups of up to five may be seen circling over forest. Tropical broadleaved evergreen forest with glades or broad streams running through.

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Black Baza is bigger than Besra but smaller than Common Kestrel.

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Black Baza

Aviceda leuphotes

33–33 cm