Sparrowhawk

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Sparrowhawk or variants may refer to:

Birds

Sparrowhawk (sometimes Sparrow Hawk) may refer to several species of small hawk in the genus Accipiter. These include:

• Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk, A. castanilius
• Collared Sparrowhawk, A. cirrocephalus
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk, A. nisus
• Imitator Sparrowhawk, A. imitator
• Japanese Sparrowhawk, A. gularis
• Levant Sparrowhawk, A. brevipes
• Little Sparrowhawk, A. minullus
• Madagascar Sparrowhawk, A. madagascariensis
• New Britain Sparrowhawk, A. brachyurus
• Nicobar Sparrowhawk, A. butleri
• Ovampo Sparrowhawk, A. ovampensis
• Red-thighed Sparrowhawk, A. erythropus
• Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, A. rufiventris
• Rufous-necked Sparrowhawk, A. erythrauchen
• Shikra, A. badius, also known as 'Indian Sparrowhawk'
• Slaty-mantled Sparrowhawk, A. luteoschistaceus
• Small Sparrowhawk, A. nanus
• Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk, A. rhodogaster
• Frances's Sparrowhawk, Accipiter francesii, also known as Frances' Goshawk
  • Anjouan Island Sparrowhawk, or Ndzuwani Goshawk Accipiter francesii pusillus, an extremely rare, possibly extinct, subspecies of Frances's Sparrowhawk
• American Kestrel, Falco sparverius, often incorrectly called a 'Sparrowhawk' or 'Sparrow Hawk'
• Nankeen Kestrel, Falco cenchroides, may be called a 'Sparrowhawk' on Norfolk Island

Ships

• HMS Sparrowhawk, the name of several ships belonging to the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom
• Sparrow-Hawk, an English ship that wrecked on Cape Cod in New England in 1626, and is currently displayed at the Pilgrim Hall Museum

Aircraft

• Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk, a light biplane fighter aircraft, formerly carried by the United States Navy airships USS Akron and USS Macon
• Soko J-20 Kraguj (English: Soko J-20 Sparrowhawk), Yugoslavian light ground-attack and training aircraft
• Windward Performance SparrowHawk high-performance ultralight sailplane
• Sparrowhawk, the call sign given to civilian aircraft carrying members of the British Royal Family or which has 'royal flight' status.

Other uses

• Operation Epervier (English: Operation Sparrowhawk) (1986–present), codename for the French military presence in Chad
• Sparrowhawk Media, British media company
• Sparrowhawk, a series of novels by Edward Cline
• The common name of Ged (Earthsea), main protagonist in the Earthsea novels by Ursula Le Guin
• In Starfleet Battles and Starfleet Command, this was a class of Romulan light cruiser.

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