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Accipitridae, the female incubates and cares for the young while the male supplies the food, with the female doing some of the hunting after the young are half-grown. Incubation lasts some 4 or 5 weeks, and the young fledge in 32 to 36 days. Juveniles probably molt directly into adult plumage when a little over one year old.
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317:, and legs of adults are yellow to yellow-orange. In the eastern subspecies, adults have dark gray upperparts with lighter heads. The underparts are plain rufous and white. The tail is blackish with two or three big white patches. Juveniles are more or less unmarked blackish above and white below.
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234:- (Verreaux, J, Verreaux, E & Des Murs, 1855)
674:del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (1994),
298:. This species was formerly placed in the genus
574:Verreaux, J, Verreaux, É & des Murs, 1855.
504:Des Murs and Verreaux named this species after
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469:Conservation status
370:A. t. macroscelides
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278:red-chested goshawk
228:- (Alexander, 1903)
220:A. t. macroscelides
170:A. toussenelii
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308:Description
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212:Subspecies
200:Verreaux, É
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