TY - JOUR AU - Ryan, Peter G AU - Shaw, Jessica M AU - van der Merwe, Rona AU - van der Merwe, Emily PY - 2012/08/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Carrion attraction: Goshawks and other birds captured on camera traps JF - Biodiversity Observations JA - Biodiv. Obs. VL - IS - SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/article/view/150 SP - 102 - 106 AB - Southern Pale Chanting Goshawks <i>Melierax canorus</i> have a catholic diet that includes carrion as well as a wide variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, insects and other invertebrates. Malan and Crowe (1996) summarise observations of them feeding on carrion, listing Spotted Eagle Owl <i>Bubo africanus</i>, Spotted Thick-knee <i>Burhinus capensis</i>, Steenbok <i>Raphicerus campestris</i>, Bat-eared Fox <i>Otocyon megalotis</i> and hares <i>Lepus</i> spp. We report how a pair of adult Southern Pale Chanting Goshawks fed on a dead Egyptian Goose <i>Alopochen aegyptiaca</i> in the Hantam Karoo near Calvinia in July 2012. The goose was one of 15 put out under power lines to see which scavengers removed bird carcasses from under the lines. Such data are important when estimating how many birds are actually killed after colliding with power lines from the numbers detected by researchers who check the lines at regular intervals. ER -