Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, 1875

Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni & Pavia, Marco, 2022, An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso, Zoosystema 44 (2), pp. 27-107 : 60-61

Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, 1875

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LITERATURE. — Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Pavia et al. (2012); ABC (2020).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — MCCI 3237; SMF 12203, 12205.

FIELD DATA. — GBIF.

STATUS. — Afrotropical vagrant or Resident?

REMARK. — Very few substantiated records, but this species could be an uncommon resident in southern Burkina Faso. The specimens of the SMF bird skeleton collection are from a “fetish market”, thus the locality is uncertain and not verifiable (G. Mayr pers. comm. 2020).

Figures

FIG. 10. — Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, Sr., 1875, Comoé-Léraba classified forest, Cascade Region, 18.III.2011 (photo M. Pavia).