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Now that Astur (Astur) atricapillus has been raised to species rank, how are the subspecies distributed between A. gentilis and A. atricapillus ?
Astur?? Still Accipiter here, the genus may be in need of splitting, but it hasn't been split yet
From IOC:
Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis (Linnaeus, 1758) NA, MA, EU : widespread
Palaearctic:
A. g. buteoides (Menzbier, 1882) n Eurasia
A. g. albidus (Menzbier, 1882) ne Siberia
A. g. schvedowi (Menzbier, 1882) ne Asia to c China
A. g. fujiyamae (Swann & Hartert, 1923) Japan
A. g. gentilis (Linnaeus, 1758) c and n Europe
A. g. marginatus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) Italy and the Balkans to Caucasus and n Iran
A. g. arrigonii (Kleinschmidt, O, 1903) Corsica, Sardinia
Nearctic:
A. g. atricapillus (Wilson, A, 1812) North America (except sw Canada, sw USA and nw Mexico)
A. g. laingi (Taverner, 1940) islands of British Columbia (sw Canada)
A. g. apache van Rossem, 1938 sw USA, nw Mexico
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