- Aviceda subcristata
Description
Crested Baza
(Pacific Baza, Crested Hawk)
Aviceda subcristata
Range:
Indonesia and Australasia. Breeds in the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, New Guinea and surrounding islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands. In Australia found in coastal areas of the north and east from the Kimberleys to about Newcastle in New South Wales. Resident.
Habitat:
Forest, woodland and plantations.
Subspecies:
About 16 subspecies are recognised: nominate race is found in eastern and north-eastern Australia, njikena in north-western Australia. Race timorlaoensis is found from Lombok to Timor and Babar, rufa in the Obi Islands and North Moluccas, stresemanni on Buru, reinwardtii on Seram and Ambon, pallida in the Kei Islands, obscura on Biak, waigeuensis on Waigeo, stenozona in western New Guinea, the Aru Islands and Misol, megala in eastern New Guinea, Fergusson and Goodenough Islands, bismarckii in New Britain, New Ireland and New Hanover, coultasi in the Admiralty Islands and Manus, gurneyi on San Cristobal, Ugi, Santa Anna, Malaita and Guadalcanal, robusta on Choiseul and Ysabel Islands, and proxima on Bougainville and Shortland Islands.
Identification
Photographed in Samsonvale, SE Queensland.
