Bat hawk

Stock photo Bat Hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus), Bintulu, Bukit Sarang Conservation Area, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia. Buy a licence on mindenpictures.com

Bat Hawk (Machaeramphus alcinus) photographed by Chien C Lee in Bukit Sarang National Park, Sarawak, insular Malaysia.

Macheiramphus alcinus Photo by Gary Albert (Wikipedia) Common name: bat hawk (en); milhafre-morcegueiro (pt); milan des chauves-souris (fr); milano murcielaguero (es); fledermausaar (de) Taxonomy: Order Falconiformes Family Accipitridae Range: This species is found throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia and south through the D.R. Congo, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola down to South Africa. It is also found in south-east Asia, in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua…

An acrobatic, swift-like raptor with angular wings and a massive gape; capable of snatching prey from the air and devouring it in a flash while still on the wing. Dark with varying amounts of white on the underside; African birds have patchy white throughout the underparts, while white is restricted to the throat and lower belly on New Guinean birds and solely to the throat in Southeast Asian birds. Inactive during the day; hunts at dawn and dusk, and occasionally into the night if light is…

image credit: junis_sp image credit: BORNEO NATURE PIX image credit: photographersdirect.com image credit: arkive.org image credit: orientalbirdimages.org Habitat: sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia to New Guinea Status: Least Concern So in honor of Warner Brothers releasing the new Batman movie (The Dark Knight Rises) teaser photos, I’ve decided today would be a good day to […]

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Bat Hawks have long wings. The large eyes are bright yellow. The long and slender legs and toes are pale bluish-grey.

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Bat Hawk, Malaysia. This bird is not named for its spooky appearance - it actually eats bats.