accipiter

Accipiter
Northern Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Subclass:	Neornithes
Infraclass:	Neognathae
Superorder:	Neoaves
Order:	Falconiformes (but see there)
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Accipitrinae
Genus:	Accipiter Brisson, 1760
Diversity
About 50 species

Shikra Accipiter badius with a Garden Lizard in Hyderabad, India.

Sharp-shinned hawk (or Cooper's Hawk?), Ontario, Canada

The genus Accipiter is a group of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae, many of which are named as goshawks and sparrowhawks.

These birds are slender with short broad rounded wings and a long tail which helps them manoeuvre in flight. They have long legs and long sharp talons used to kill their prey, and a sharp hooked bill used in feeding. Females tend to be larger than males. They often ambush their prey, mainly small birds and mammals, capturing it after a short chase. The typical flight pattern is a series of flaps followed by a short glide. They are commonly found in wooded or shrubby areas.

Species in taxonomic order

• Northern Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus
• Grey-bellied Goshawk, Accipiter poliogaster
• Crested Goshawk, Accipiter trivirgatus
• Sulawesi Goshawk, Accipiter griseiceps
• Red-chested Goshawk, Accipiter toussenelii
• African Goshawk, Accipiter tachiro
• Chinese Goshawk, Accipiter soloensis
• Frances's Sparrowhawk, Accipiter francesii
• Spot-tailed Goshawk, Accipiter trinotatus
• Grey Goshawk, Accipiter novaehollandiae
• Brown Goshawk, Accipiter fasciatus
  • Christmas Island Goshawk, Accipiter (fasciatus) natalis
• Black-mantled Goshawk, Accipiter melanochlamys
• Pied Goshawk, Accipiter albogularis
• Fiji Goshawk, Accipiter rufitorques
• White-bellied Goshawk, Accipiter haplochrous
• Moluccan Goshawk, Accipiter henicogrammus
• Grey-headed Goshawk, Accipiter poliocephalus
• New Britain Goshawk, Accipiter princeps
• Black Goshawk, Accipiter melanoleucus
• Henst's Goshawk, Accipiter henstii
• Meyer's Goshawk, Accipiter meyerianus
• Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk, Accipiter castanilius
• Nicobar Sparrowhawk, Accipiter butleri
• Levant Sparrowhawk, Accipiter brevipes
• Slaty-mantled Sparrowhawk, Accipiter luteoschistaceus
• Imitator Sparrowhawk, Accipiter imitator
• Red-thighed Sparrowhawk, Accipiter erythropus
• Little Sparrowhawk, Accipiter minullus
• Japanese Sparrowhawk, Accipiter gularis
• Small Sparrowhawk, Accipiter nanus
• Rufous-necked Sparrowhawk, Accipiter erythrauchen
• Collared Sparrowhawk, Accipiter cirrocephalus
• New Britain Sparrowhawk, Accipiter brachyurus
• Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk, Accipiter rhodogaster
• Madagascar Sparrowhawk, Accipiter madagascariensis
• Ovampo Sparrowhawk, Accipiter ovampensis
• Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, Accipiter rufiventris
• Shikra, Accipiter badius
• Tiny Hawk, Accipiter superciliosus
• Semicollared Hawk, Accipiter collaris
• Sharp-shinned Hawk, Accipiter striatus
• White-breasted Hawk, Accipiter chionogaster
• Plain-breasted Hawk, Accipiter ventralis
• Rufous-thighed Hawk, Accipiter erythronemius
• Cooper's Hawk, Accipiter cooperii
• Gundlach's Hawk, Accipiter gundlachi
• Bicoloured Hawk, Accipiter bicolor
  • Chilean Hawk, Accipiter (bicolor) chilensis
• Besra, Accipiter virgatus

An Accipiter was seen on 12 March 1994 south of the summit of Camiguin in the Philippines, where the genus was not known to occur. It may have been an undescribed taxon, but more likely it was not; it could simply have been a vagrant of a known species.^[1]

Footnotes

References

• Balete, Danilo S.; Tabaranza, Blas R. Jr. & Heaney, Lawrence R. (2006): An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Camiguin Island, Philippines. Fieldiana Zool. New Series 106: 58–72. DOI:10.3158/0015-0754(2006)106[58:AACOTB]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
• Heaney, Lawrence R. & Tabaranza, Blas R. Jr. (2006): Mammal and Land Bird Studies on Camiguin Island, Philippines: Background and Conservation Priorities. Fieldiana Zool. New Series 106: 1-13. DOI:10.3158/0015-0754(2006)106[1:MALBSO]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract

External links

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• Pictures of Accipiters and information about North American Accipiters

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