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| | [[Image:Shikra.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Rakesh<br />Photo taken: Hebbal , Bangalore.]] | | [[Image:Shikra.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Rakesh<br />Photo taken: Hebbal , Bangalore.]] |
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| | ==Identification== | | ==Identification== |
| | ==Distribution== | | ==Distribution== |
| - | Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. In Africa breeds from Senegal, Gambia and southern Mauritania east to Ethiopia and western Somalia and south to South Africa. Absent from the closed forests of Central Africa and the most arid areas of the south-west. Resident. | + | Sub-Saharan [[Africa]] and southern [[Asia]]. In Africa breeds from [[Senegal]], [[Gambia]] and southern [[Mauritania]] east to [[Ethiopia]] and western [[Somalia]] and south to [[South Africa]]. |
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| - | In Asia breeds from Iran and Pakistan south to southern India and Sri Lanka and north to Kazakstan and the far west of China. Range extends eastwards southern China and Hainan and south to southern Thailand. Northern populations are migratory, wintering from Iran to India and South-East Asia. Vagrants recorded in Malaya and Sumatra. | + | In Asia breeds from [[Iran]] and [[Pakistan]] south to southern [[India]] and [[Sri Lanka]] and north to [[Kazakstan]] and the far west of [[China]]. Range extends eastwards southern China and [[Hainan]] and south to southern [[Thailand]]. |
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| - | Status in the Western Palearctic is difficult to determine but known to have bred once in southern Azerbaijan in 1933 but not confirmed since. May be present regularly in south-east Transcaucasia and has been recorded as a vagrant in Israel and a bird thought to be a hybrid Shikra x Levant Sparrowhawk has also been recorded there. | |
| - | ==Taxonomy== | |
| - | AKA Little Banded Goshawk | |
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| | Six races recognised with two in Africa: sphenurus from Gambia to northern Tanzania and polyzonoides from southern Tanzania to the Cape. In Asia cenchroides occurs from Transcaucasia to Central Asia, dussumieri in northern India and the Himalayas, badius in southern India and Sri Lanka and poliopsis from north-east India to China and South-East Asia. | | Six races recognised with two in Africa: sphenurus from Gambia to northern Tanzania and polyzonoides from southern Tanzania to the Cape. In Asia cenchroides occurs from Transcaucasia to Central Asia, dussumieri in northern India and the Himalayas, badius in southern India and Sri Lanka and poliopsis from north-east India to China and South-East Asia. |
Revision as of 16:02, 14 April 2008
- Accipiter badius
AKA Little Banded Goshawk
Photo by Rakesh
Photo taken: Hebbal , Bangalore.
Identification
Distribution
Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. In Africa breeds from Senegal, Gambia and southern Mauritania east to Ethiopia and western Somalia and south to South Africa.
In Asia breeds from Iran and Pakistan south to southern India and Sri Lanka and north to Kazakstan and the far west of China. Range extends eastwards southern China and Hainan and south to southern Thailand.
Taxonomy
Six races recognised with two in Africa: sphenurus from Gambia to northern Tanzania and polyzonoides from southern Tanzania to the Cape. In Asia cenchroides occurs from Transcaucasia to Central Asia, dussumieri in northern India and the Himalayas, badius in southern India and Sri Lanka and poliopsis from north-east India to China and South-East Asia.
Habitat
Forest, woodlands and wooded steppes, cultivated areas and often close to human habitation.
Behaviour
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