Updated on September 14, 2025. We visited Uganda in July 2025 and I'm looking at and updating my goshawk posts. I had this bird labeled as a southern pale chanting goshawk, posted on August 19, 2018, which I'm not sure made any sense, it doesn't now; and based on iNaturalist results I'm shifting the identification to a silver pale chanting goshawk ssp. argentior.
I saw it in Etosha NP in Namibia on January 8, 2015.
It has gray upperparts with a white rump. The outer tail feathers are barred gray and white. The head and upper chest are pale gray and the rest of the underparts are finely barred in dark gray and white. The bill is red at the base and dark gray at the tip. The cere, facial skin and legs are also red.
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| Silver pale chanting goshawk. |
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| Pale chanting goshawk illustration from Birds of the World. |
Subspecies argentior (silver) is found from southwestern Angola south and east through Namibia, Botswana and southwestern Zimbabwe to northern South Africa.
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| Pale chanting goshawk range from Birds of the World. |
It looks a bit like a dove + a falcon.
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