Digiscoped Bird Images from Southern Africa - African Harrier-Hawk (Gymnogene)  Polyboroides typus  (169)

This large raptor specialises in robbing the nests of hole nesting birds and has remarkably adaptive flexible knee-joints to facilitate this habit. This photo was taken shortly after the bird had consumed a nestling of the Green Wood-hoepoe. ©Etienne Marais 2004
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