Jerdon's Baza (Aviceda jerdoni) in flight, Mizoram, India
Date 31 March 2014, 09:01:24
Author T R Shankar Raman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shankar_Raman
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jerdon%27s_Baza_in_flight,_Mizoram,_India.jpg

Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni) is a moderate sized brown hawk with a thin white-tipped black crest usually held erect. It is found in South-east Asia. It inhabits foothills in the terai and is rarer in evergreen forests and tea estates. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the surgeon-naturalist Thomas C. Jerdon. It is resident in the terai of North India and foothills of the Eastern Himalayas from Eastern Nepal and Bengal duars to the Assam valley, Western Ghats in Southern India, southern Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Sumatra, Singapore and Philippines.
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aviceda
Species: Aviceda jerdoni (Blyth, 1842)