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Photo by fuzzhead
Photo taken: Location: Richland, WA, USA

Accipiter gentilis

[edit] Identification

• Robust bird
• Long narrow tail
• Short rounded wings
• Bold white eyebrow

Adult

• Blue-grey above
• Black crown
• Pale underparts finely barred with grey

Immature Brown above and streaked below

[edit] Distribution

Photo by Teodor
Photographed in February 2008

In America, breeds from Alaska east through Mackenzie and northern Quebec to Newfoundland, and south to New Mexico, Great Lakes, and New England; also southward to northern Appalachians. Winters south to Virginia and Southwest.

A widespread species in the Western Palearctic breeding from Iberia east to the Black Sea and Caucasus and north to northern Scandinavia and Arctic Russia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• A. g. gentilis:

• Europe and extreme north-western Africa

• A. g. arrigonii:

• Corsica and Sardinia

• A. g. buteoides:

• Northern Eurasia (Sweden to Lena River); winters to central Asia

• A. g. albidus:

• North-eastern Siberia to Kamchatka Peninsula

• A. g. schvedowi:

• North-eastern Asia to central China; winters to northern Indochina

• A. g. fujiyamae:

• Japan

• A. g. atricapillus:

• North America south to southern US and western Mexico

• A. g. laingi:

• South-western Canada (Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island)

Subspecies A.g. apache (Sierra Madre Occidental Mexico to SE Arizona and SW New Mexico USA; Maderas del Carmen? Mexico) is not recognised by all authorities^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Deciduous or coniferous woodland interspersed with open areas. Often over more open country in winter.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Vocalisation

Usually silent, sometimes lets out a loud kak-kak-kak-kak-kak when disturbed.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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