- Accipiter brevipes
Identification
Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes RANGE A summer visitor to the southern Ukraine and east across southern Russia to Kazakstan and in scattered parts of South-East Europe. There are small, isolated populations in southern Romania and Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, probably Albania and in particular, Greece, and has bred in small numbers in south-east Hungary. In addition, breeds in western and northern Turkey and the Caucasus.
Winters in East Africa and seen on passage across Turkey, the Middle East and Egypt. The Bosphorus is the preferred migration route with smaller numbers through the Caucasus and the passage period is mid August-early October, peaking in the second half of September. The return movement takes place in mid-late April. Passage is very concentrated and most of the population move through in a few days in dense flocks. Vagrants recorded in Poland, Cyprus, Italy and Tunisia and a rare passage migrant to Kuwait.
HABITAT Deciduous woodland, in dry, hilly or lowland areas, often along rivers. Sometimes breeds in stands of trees in open cultivated land.


