Aviceda
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Baza
| image = Black Baza.jpg
| image_caption = Black baza (Aviceda leuphotes)
| taxon = Aviceda
| authority = Swainson, 1836
| type_species = Aviceda cuculoides{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=36 |title= Accipitridae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-26}}
| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1837
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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The bazas,Etymological note: the common name "baza" is derived from baaz, the Hindi name for the northern goshawk, (Accipiter gentilis). Baaz has its origins in Arabic.
{{ cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/BirdNamesIndia/Buceros9_2BirdNames_djvu.txt |title=A dictionary of scientific bird names originating from the Indian region |author=Aasheesh Pittie |access-date=24 September 2015}} Aviceda, are a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. The genus has a widespread distribution from Australia to southern Asia and across to Africa. The bazas are sometimes known as cuckoo-hawks.
A prominent crest is a feature of the bazas. They have two tooth-like indentations on the edge of the upper bill.
Etymology
Aviceda: {{langx|la|avis}} 'bird'; -cida 'killer', from caedere 'to kill'.{{cite book |last1= Jobling |first1=J.A.|year= 2017| chapter= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology|chapter-url= https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/aviceda |url-access=subscription |editor1-last= del Hoyo|editor1-first= J.|editor2-last= Elliott|editor2-first= A.|editor3-last= Sargatal|editor3-first= J.|editor4-last= Christie |editor4-first= D.A.|editor5-last= de Juana|editor5-first= E. |title= Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive |url= https://www.hbw.com/|location= Barcelona|publisher= Lynx Edicions}}
Species
{{Species table |genus= Aviceda |authority-name=Swainson|authority-year= 1836 |species-count=five|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=African cuckoo-hawk |binomial=Aviceda cuculoides
|image=File:Aviceda cuculoides verreauxii 149350286.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Swainson|authority-year=1837 |authority-not-original=
|range= Sub-Saharan Africa and eastern parts of southern Africa
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
|A. c. subsp. cuculoides
|A. c. subsp. batesi
|A. c. subsp. verreauxii
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{{Species table/row
|name=Jerdon's baza |binomial=Aviceda jerdoni
|image=File:Adult Jerdon's Baza.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Blyth|authority-year=1842 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= South-east Asia
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies{{cite book|pages=195–196|title=Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 1|year=1931| publisher= Harvard University Press| place=Cambridge| author=Peters, James Lee|url=https://archive.org/stream/checklistofbirds11931pete#page/194/mode/1up}} |bullets=on
| A. j. jerdoni (Blyth, 1842)
| A. j. ceylonensis (Legge, 1876)
| A. j. borneensis (Sharpe, 1893)
| A. j. magnirostris (Kaup, 1847)
| A. j. leucopias (Sharpe, 1888)
| A. j. celebensis (Schlegel, 1873)
}}
}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Black baza |binomial=Aviceda leuphotes
|image=File:BLACK BAZA Aviceda leuphotes (7005184891).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Dumont|authority-year=1820 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Northeast India, the eastern Himalayas, China and Southeast Asia.
|range-image= File:Black Baza ebird data map.png
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Three subspecies |bullets=on
| A. l. syama (Hodgson, 1837)
| A. l. leuphotes (Dumont, 1820)
| A. l. andamanica (Abdulali & Grubh, 1970)
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{{Species table/row
|name=Madagascar cuckoo-hawk |binomial=Aviceda madagascariensis
|image=File:Aviceda madagascariensis 1868.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Smith|authority-year=1834 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Madagascar.
|range-image=File:Aviceda madagascariensis distribution map.png
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|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/row
|name=Pacific baza |binomial=Aviceda subcristata
|image=File:Aviceda subcristata -captive-8.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gould|authority-year=1838 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands and South Africa and East Timor
|range-image=File:Pacific Baza.png
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Thirteen subspecies |bullets=on
| Aviceda subcristata bismarckii (Sharpe, 1888)
| A. s. coultasi (Mayr, 1945)
| A. s. gurneyi (E. P. Ramsay, 1882)
| A. s. megala (Stresemann, 1913)
| A. s. obscura (Junge, 1956)
| A. s. pallida (Stresemann, 1913)
| A. s. reinwardtii (Schlegel & S. Müller, 1841)
| A. s. rufa (Schlegel, 1866)
| A. s. stenozona (G. R. Gray, 1858)
| A. s. stresemani (Siebers, 1930)
| A. s. subcristata (Gould, 1838)
| A. s. timorlaoensis (A. B. Meyer, 1893)
| A. s. waigeuensis (Mayr, 1940)
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References
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