Pacific Baza
英文名：Pacific Baza（学名：Aviceda subcristata），是鹰形目鹰科鹃隼属的鸟类。中型猛禽，身长35-46厘米，翼展80-105厘米。以其独特的黑色枕冠和明亮的黄色眼睛著称，分布于澳大利亚、新几内亚、所罗门群岛等地的热带雨林、湿地和郊区。此物种善于低空猎捕昆虫、树蛙、小型鸟类和果实。
Pacific Baza
36-45 cm; span c. 80 cm. Note the slim black crest on plain grey head; yellow eyes. Breast white with bold dark-brown bars; tail with dark bars. In flight, undersides of long, paddle-shaped wings show white, conspicuously barred flight feathers, black trailing edge, orange-buff wing linings and undertail-coverts; undertail pale grey with broad black terminal band. Juvenile: browner above, with rusty feathermargins; upperbreast buff, bars on breast thinner; undertail strongly barred. Pairs, family parties: often tame and approachable around camping grounds, suburbs; soars over territory in shallow circles on flat wings, performs spectacular tumbling displays, calling plaintively. Hunts around leafy trees, plunging into foliage after prey.
- Other name
- Crested Hawk.
- Voice
- weak piping; in flight, mellow double whistle, 'ee-choo, ee-choo', descending (Hollands, 1984).
- Habitat
- leafy trees on rainforest fringes; open forest and woodland; timbered watercourses; well-treed suburbs.
- Breeding
- Oct.-Dec.
- Nest
- flimsy, on horizontal, often leafy branch up to 30 m high.
- Eggs
- 2-5; shaped like a top; blue-white or green-white, smeared, blotched, spotted light brown.
- Range & Status
- coastal n. and e. Aust., from w. Kimberley (WA) to Top End (NT), and from C. York (Q) s. to c. Moruya, rare s. of Illawarra (NSW). Sedentary; locally dispersive. Generally uncommon. Also e. Indonesia, PNG, Solomons.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Aviceda subcristata subcristata
