Jerdon's baza (Aviceda jerdoni) is a moderate sized brown hawk with a thin white-tipped black crest usually held erect.

It inhabits foothills in the terai and is rarer in evergreen forests and tea estates.

These include:[5] It is a resident of 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,[6][1] Burma, Thailand,[4] Sumatra,[7] Singapore[8] and Philippines[9] The bird is typically seen in pairs making aerial sallies; crest held erect.

Occasionally, the birds may be seen in small family parties of 3 to 5 seen in flight near edge of forests.

The stomach contents of a specimen collected in present-day Kurseong included agamid lizard, Japalura variegata, several longicorn beetles and mantises.