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The Eurasian sparrowhawk forms a superspecies with the rufous-chested sparrowhawk of eastern and southern Africa, and possibly the Madagascar sparrowhawk. [10] Geographic variation is clinal , with birds becoming larger and paler in the eastern part of the range compared to the western part. [ 11 ]
Until the sixth edition of the AOU Checklist of North American Birds was published by the American Ornithologists' Union in 1983, the most commonly used name for the American kestrel was the sparrow hawk. This was due to a mistaken connection with the Eurasian sparrowhawk in the genus Accipiter.
Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Madagascar sparrowhawk. Accipiter madagascariensis (Smith, 1834) Madagascar Size: Habitat: Diet: NT 3,300–6,700 [10] Ovambo sparrowhawk. Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, 1875: Sub-Saharan Africa: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC [11] Eurasian sparrowhawk. Accipiter nisus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sparrowhawk (sometimes sparrow hawk) may refer to several species of small hawk in the subfamily Accipitrinae. "Sparrow-hawk" or sparhawk originally referred to Accipiter nisus , now called "Eurasian" or "northern" sparrowhawk to distinguish it from other species.
Cooper's hawk has a mean home range size that was comparable to the roughly half as large-bodied Eurasian sparrowhawk, at 1,190 ha (2,900 acres) for Cooper's and 835 ha (2,060 acres) for the sparrowhawk.
The black sparrowhawk is one of the world's largest hawks, only the Henst's, Meyer's and Eurasian goshawk can match or exceed its size. As is common in the genus Astur, male black sparrowhawks are smaller than females. Typically the weights of males lie between 450 and 650 g (0.99 and 1.43 lb) while that of females lies in the 750 to 1,020 g (1 ...
Eurasian sparrowhawk: 87,832,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (DVR) Accipiter nisus [34] Western tree hyrax: 99,000,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (cortex) Dendrohyrax dorsalis [43] Green-rumped parrotlet: 103,000,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (DVR) Forpus passerinus [47] Wild turkey: 105,654,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (DVR)
[12] [243] Per the IUCN, the global population of Eurasian and American goshawk is estimated to consist of 1 million to nearly 2.5 million birds, making this one of the most numerous species complex in its diverse family (the red-tailed hawk and black kite both may have a similar global population size, whereas the Eurasian sparrowhawk and ...