The Zoochat Photographic Guide To Birds of Prey

[TeaLovingDave]

Polemaetus


Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus)

The range of this species extends throughout the vast majority of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia and Somalia in the east, and south to the Cape; absent only from coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, and northeast Mozambique and adjacent southern Tanzania.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Javan Rhino

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[TeaLovingDave]

Spizaetus


Black Hawk-eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout Central America and much of northern South America, from central Mexico in the north to Bolivia and central Brazil in the south; a disjunct population occurs from eastern Paraguay and the extreme northeast of Argentina into coastal southern and eastern Brazil.

Two subspecies recognised:

S. t. serus - photo by @devilfish

S. t. tyrannus


Black-and-white Hawk-eagle (Spizaetus melanoleucus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout Central and South America, from southeast Mexico in the north to north-central Argentina and southeast Brazil in the south; largely absent from much of eastern and central Brazil, and only sparsely present in Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas.

Monotypic.

Photo by @devilfish

Ornate Hawk-eagle (Spizaetus ornatus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout Central America and much of northern and central South America, from southern Mexico in the north to central Brazil, Bolivia and north-central Argentina in the south; a disjunct population occurs from southeast Paraguay and northeast Argentina into southeast Brazil.

Two subspecies recognised:

S. o. vicarius - photo by @Newzooboy

S. o. ornatus


Black-and-chestnut Eagle (Spizaetus isidori)

The range of this species extends patchily through the coastal mountains of Columbia and Venezuela, and south throughout the Andes to northwest Argentina.

Monotypic.

Photo by @devilfish

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[TeaLovingDave]

Ictinaetus


Black Eagle (Ictinaetus malaiensis)

The range of this species extends in a patchy and highly-fragmented distribution throughout much of south Asia, from the Himalayas of northwest Pakistan and the Western Ghats of southwest India in the west, through the Indian Subcontinent, south-central China and Indochina, to southeast China and Taiwan in the west, and south into the Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas and the Moluccas.

Two subspecies recognised:

I. m. perniger
I. m. malaiensis - photo by @Chlidonias

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[TeaLovingDave]

Lophaetus


Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis)

The range of this species extends throughout the vast majority of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, and south to coastal eastern South Africa; largely absent from the Horn of Africa and much of the arid southwest from central Angola to south-central South Africa.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Hix

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[TeaLovingDave]

Clanga


Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily throughout central and eastern Europe into Asia Minor and the Caucasus; the wintering range of the species extends through sub-Saharan Africa from north-central Sudan in the north to northeast Namibia in the southwest and northeast South Africa in the southeast.

Monotypic.

Photo by @alexkant

Indian Spotted Eagle (Clanga hastata)

The range of this species extends throughout India, and into adjacent northeast Pakistan and Bangladesh; disjunct populations are present in southwest Myanmar and central Cambodia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Greater Spotted Eagle (Clanga clanga)

The breeding range of this species extends from east-central Europe in the west, throughout Siberia and adjacent northern Kazakhstan and northern Mongolia, to northeast China in the east; the wintering range of this species extends patchily throughout southern Europe and northern Africa into the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East, and from here into the northern Indian Subcontinent, Indochina and southeast China.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

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[Chlidonias]

N. n. kelaarti - photo by @Terry Thomas

You'd really need to see the underparts to tell which species that is, but it looks like a Crested Hawk-eagle (cirrhatus) rather than a Legge's Hawk-eagle (kelaarti). Going by the date on the EXIF data and TT's thread of his trip, the photo appears to have been taken at Bundala which is a dry-zone park where Legge's doesn't occur (it is a resident of broadleaf rainforest).

 

[TeaLovingDave]

You'd really need to see the underparts to tell which species that is, but it looks like a Crested Hawk-eagle (cirrhatus) rather than a Legge's Hawk-eagle (kelaarti). Going by the date on the EXIF data and TT's thread of his trip, the photo appears to have been taken at Bundala which is a dry-zone park where Legge's doesn't occur (it is a resident of broadleaf rainforest).

Ah, fair enough I was going by the overall shade of the back, which the diagrams in HBW suggest is darker and less uniform in kelaarti - but the geographic detail you highlight would tend to trump this, yes. I shall make the edit now.

 

[Chlidonias]

Ah, fair enough I was going by the overall shade of the back, which the diagrams in HBW suggest is darker and less uniform in kelaarti - but the geographic detail you highlight would tend to trump this, yes. I shall make the edit now.

I made a query on the photo too, so that TT can advise where the photo was actually taken.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Aquila


Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax)

The range of this species comprises three disjunct populations; patchily throughout Morocco and Algeria; throughout sub-Saharan Africa - barring the Congo Basin - from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, south to central South Africa, and into the southwest Arabian Peninsula; and from southeast Iran into Pakistan, much of India and southernmost Nepal.

Three subspecies recognised:

A. r. vindhiana - photo by @ThylacineAlive

A. r. belisarius - photo by @Tomek

A. r. rapax - photo by @Hix

Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the Caucasus into the Altai Mountains and Tibetan Plateau, and from here into southern Mongolia and northeast China; a disjunct population exists in central Asia Minor. The wintering range of this species extends from the Middle East south into the Arabian Peninsula and eastern and southern Africa, and patchily east throughout southern Asia to southern China and Hainan.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. n. orientalis - photo by @Maguari

A. n. nipalensis - photo by @Deer Forest

Spanish Imperial Eagle (Aquila adalberti)

Endemic to central and southern Spain, and adjacent portions of eastern Portugal.

Monotypic.

Photo by @TeaLovingDave

Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from central and southeast Europe into Asia Minor and the Caucasus, and from here throughout Central Asia and southern Siberia as far east as northeast China and adjacent Mongolia; the wintering range of this species extends in a patchy and highly-fragmented distribution throughout Asia Minor, the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula, south into northeast Africa and east throughout Tien Shan and the Himalayas into central and eastern China, Indochina and southern Japan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura

Gurney's Eagle (Aquila gurneyi)

The range of this species extends from the Moluccas through the West Papuan and Aru Islands into New Guinea, and from here into the western D’Entrecasteaux Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

The range of this species represents a widespread Holarctic distribution, from northwest Europe and the Iberian Peninsula in the west, through Europe, northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula into the vast majority of Asia north of the Himalayas and south-central China to the Russian Far East in the east, and from here across the Bering Strait into North America as far south as central Mexico; largely absent from western Europe, and populations in much of Alaska and Canada are seasonally migratory into the eastern USA.

Six subspecies recognised:

A. c. chrysaetos - photo by @Dormitator

A. c. homeyeri - photo by @Maguari

A. c. daphanea - photo by @Chlidonias

A. c. kamtschatica
A. c. japonica
A. c. canadensis - photo by @Adam Khor

Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia and Tasmania, and into southernmost New Guinea.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. a. audax - photo by @Jabiru96

A. a. fleayi


Verreaux's Eagle (Aquila verreauxii)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout eastern and southern Africa, from Sudan and Eritrea in the north to the Cape in the south, and northwest from here as far as southwest Angola; disjunct populations are present in Niger, eastern Chad and adjacent western Sudan, and throughout the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila fasciata)

The range of this species represents a widespread but patchy distribution from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the west, through southern Europe, the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula into southern Asia as far east as northern Indochina and southeast China; a possibly-introduced disjunct population exists in the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. f. fasciata - photo by @Deer Forest

A. f. renschi


African Hawk-eagle (Aquila spilogaster)

The range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, and south to central Namibia, Botswana and northeast South Africa; absent from the Congo Basin and coastal West Africa.

Monotypic.

Photo by @zoogiraffe

Cassin's Hawk-eagle (Aquila africana)

The range of this species extends throughout West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Sierra Leone in the west to western Uganda and Rwanda in the east, and south to western DRC and northwest Angola.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Hieraaetus


Wahlberg's Eagle (Hieraaetus wahlbergi)

The range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, and south to northern Namibia, Botswana and northeast South Africa; absent from the Congo Basin and Horn of Africa, and populations in the northernmost portions of the range largely non-breeding.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily from southwest Europe and North Africa in the west, through eastern Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus into Central Asia and south-central Siberia, to northeast China in the east; wintering populations extend throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa outside the Congo Basin and Horn of Africa, and also throughout the Indian Subcontinent and adjacent areas of southern Asia; populations in the Western Cape of Africa, western Himalayas and Tien Shan are resident.

Monotypic, although populations in South Africa may be distinct.


Photo by @alexkant

Pygmy Eagle (Hieraaetus weiskei)

The range of this species extends throughout the Moluccas and New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Little Eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoides)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia, absent only from southeast Western Australia and adjacent South Australia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Hix

Ayres's Hawk-eagle (Hieraaetus ayresii)

The range of this species extends in a highly-patchy and fragmented distribution throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from Guinea and Sierra Leone in the west to Ethiopia and Somalia in the east, and south to northern Angola in the west and northeast South Africa and adjacent Mozambique in the east; absent from much of central Africa, and a non-breeding visitor in large portions of this range.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Kaupifalco


Lizard Buzzard (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to southeast Sudan and northwest Ethiopia in the east, and south to southern Angola in the west and northeast South Africa in the east; largely absent from the Horn of Africa and adjacent portions of northeast Africa.

Two subspecies recognised:

K. m. monogrammicus
K. m. meridionalis

Photo by @Maguari

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[TeaLovingDave]

Melierax


Dark Chanting-goshawk (Melierax metabates)

The range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea and central Ethiopia in the east, and south to Angola in the west and northeast South Africa in the east; absent from the Horn of Africa and the Congo Basin. Disjunct populations exist in southwest Morocco and the southern Arabian Peninsula.

Five subspecies recognised:

M. m. theresae
M. m. neumanni
M. m. ignoscens
M. m. metabates - photo by @Maguari

M. m. mechowi


Pale Chanting-goshawk (Melierax canorus)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Africa, from southwest Angola into Namibia, Botswana and southwest Zimbabwe, and south through central and western South Africa to the Cape.

Two subspecies recognised:

M. c. argentior
M. c. canorus

Photo by @LaughingDove

Eastern Chanting-goshawk (Melierax poliopterus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Horn of Africa and into adjacent areas of eastern Africa, as far west as northern Uganda and as far south as east-central Tanzania.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Hix

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[TeaLovingDave]

Micronisus


Gabar Goshawk (Micronisus gabar)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea, Ethiopia and northern Somalia in the east, and south to the Cape, with a disjunct population in the southwest Arabian Peninsula; absent from the Congo Basin and much of coastal West Africa.

Three subspecies recognised:

M. g. niger
M. g. aequatorius
M. g. gabar

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Harpagus


Double-toothed Kite (Harpagus bidentatus)

The range of this species extends throughout Central America and into much of northern and central South America, from southern Mexico in the north to eastern Bolivia and adjacent west-central Brazil; a disjunct population exists in coastal southeast Brazil.

Two subspecies recognised:

H. b. fasciatus
H. b. bidentatus - photo by @ronnienl

Rufous-thighed Kite (Harpagus diodon)

The breeding range of this species represents a pair of widely-disjunct populations in South America; in eastern Venezuela and the Guianas; and throughout southern Brazil into eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northeast Argentina. These populations are connected by a wide non-breeding distribution throughout the Amazon Basin.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Circus


Western Marsh-harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the British Isles, Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa in the west, throughout Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus into Central Asia and southern Siberia, as far east as north-central Mongolia; populations in western Europe are patchily distributed. The wintering range of this species extends patchily through southern Europe and into sub-Saharan Africa as far south as the Congo Basin in the west and northeast South Africa in the east, the Nile Valley and the Indian Subcontinent.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. a. aeruginosus - photo by @Maguari

C. a. harterti


Eastern Marsh-harrier (Circus spilonotus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from southeast Siberia and eastern Mongolia into the Russian Far East, northeast China, Sakhalin and northern Japan; the wintering range of this species extends patchily throughout southeast Asia, from the Korean Peninsula and southern Japan through southeast China, Indochina and the Philippines, to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and northern Borneo.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Papuan Harrier (Circus spilothorax)

Endemic to central and eastern New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia - barring the arid interior - and into Tasmania and New Zealand, and to the north throughout eastern Melanesia and western Polynesia from Vanuatu to Tonga. Populations in northern Australia are only seasonally present and non-breeding.

Two subspecies recognised:

C. a. gouldi - photo by @Thatzookeeperguy

C. a. approximans


African Marsh-harrier (Circus ranivorus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout eastern and southern Africa, from the eastern DRC, Uganda and western Kenya in the north to the Cape in the south, extending west to southeast Angola and adjacent northeast Namibia and with disjunct populations in central and western DRC.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Reunion Marsh-harrier (Circus maillardi)

Endemic to Reunion Island.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Madagascar Marsh-harrier (Circus macrosceles)

The range of this species extends throughout Madagascar and north into the Comoro Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni)

The range of this species extends from central Brazil into eastern Paraguay, Uruguay and northeast Argentina, with non-breeding populations extending north and west into Bolivia and north-central Brazil; a disjunct population extends from central Columbia into Venezuela and the Guianas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis)

The range of this species extends from Sulawesi in the north, through the Sula Islands and western Lesser Sundas and throughout Australia in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Dannelboyz

Black Harrier (Circus maurus)

The resident range of this species is restricted to southern South Africa, with a disjunct population in northwest Namibia; non-breeding and seasonal populations occur throughout Namibia, South Africa and Lesotho.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula, through northern and eastern Europe into western Russia, and from here throughout Siberia to the Russian Far Wast and northeast China; the wintering range of this species extends throughout Europe and North Africa into the Middle East, Caucasus and Arabian Peninsula, and from here patchily through Central Asia and the Himalayas into northern Indochina, southeast China and as far east as the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Populations in western and central Europe are resident.

Monotypic.

Photo by @alexkant

Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout northern and central North America, from Alaska and northern Canada in the north to west-central California, northern Texas and Delaware in the south; the wintering range of this species extends from southwest Canada and northeast USA in the north, throughout the USA and Mexico into Central America, as far south as Panama and northernmost Colombia. Populations in southeast Canada and the northern and central USA are resident.

Monotypic; the only photograph of this species in the Zoochat gallery is of a hatchling and as such unsuitable for the purposes of this thread.


Cinereous Harrier (Circus cinereus)

The range of this species extends from the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, south throughout the Andes into central Chile and east-central Argentina, and from here as far as Tierra del Fuego; non-breeding populations extend through northeast Argentina into Uruguay and southern Paraguay.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends through eastern Europe into western Russia and the Caucasus, and from here throughout southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan as far east as northwest China and western Mongolia; the wintering range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution throughout northern Africa, the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula, and into the Indian Subcontinent and northeast Indochina, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa barring the Congo Basin, Horn of Africa and the most arid regions of the southwest and Cape.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Pied Harrier (Circus melanoleucos)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout south-central Siberia and adjacent northern Mongolia, into the Russian Far East and northern China; the wintering range of this species extends throughout much of southern Asia, from the Himalayas and southeast Indian Subcontinent into southern China, Indochina and Malay Peninsula, and also into Taiwan, the Philippines and northern Borneo.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Nick@Amsterdam

Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily from western Europe, the Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa, throughout central and southern Europe into the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia as far east as northwest China; the wintering range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa barring the Congo Basin, coastal West Africa, the Horn of Africa and the arid southwest, and also patchily throughout the Indian Subcontinent into Sri Lanka.

Monotypic.

Photo by @alexkant

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[TeaLovingDave]

Accipiter


Grey-bellied Goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster)

The range of this species extends throughout much of South America east of the Andes, from Colombia and northeast Ecuador in the north, through the Guianas and Amazon Basin to northern Bolivia and eastern Peru; a disjunct summer breeding population is present in southeast Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northeast Argentina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Crested Goshawk (Accipiter trivirgatus)

The range of this species extends across much of southern and southeast Asia in a patchy distribution of disjunct populations, from Sri Lanka and coastal India in the southwest and the Himalayas in the northwest, through southern China, Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into Taiwan, the Greater Sundas and Phillippines in the east.

Eleven subspecies recognised:

A. t. peninsulae
A. t. layardi
A. t. indicus - photo by @MagicYoung

A. t. formosae
A. t. trivirgatus
A. t. niasensis
A. t. javanicus - photo by @Chlidonias

A. t. microstictus
A. t. castroi
A. t. palawanus - photo by @alexkant

A. t. extimus


Sulawesi Goshawk (Accipiter griseiceps)

Endemic to Sulawesi and surrounding offshore islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii)

The range of this species extends throughout West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Senegal in the west to Uganda in the east, and south as far as westernmost DRC; a disjunct population is present in Eritrea and the Ethiopian Highlands.

Five subspecies are recognised:

A. t. macroscelides
A. t. lopezi
A. t. toussenelii
A. t. canescens
A. t. unduliventer

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


African Goshawk (Accipiter tachiro)

The range of this species extends across much of southern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, from Uganda, Kenya and southern Somalia in the north to the Western Cape in the south, and also west through the southern DRC into Angola and northernmost Namibia.

Three subspecies recognised:

A. t. sparsimfasciatus
A. t. pembaensis
A. t. tachiro

Photo by @Maguari

Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk (Accipiter castanilius)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of the Congo Basin, from southern Nigeria in the west to northeast DRC in the east, and south to northwest Angola.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Shikra (Accipiter badius)

The range of this species comprises a pair of widely-disjunct populations; throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent areas of the Arabian Peninsula - barring the Congo Basin - from Senegal in the west to the southwest Arabian Peninsula in the east, and south to central Namibia and northern South Africa; and from the southern Caucasus and northeast Middle East into Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas, extending as far east as southern China, Indochina and the northern Malay Peninsula.

Six subspecies recognised:

A. b. sphenurus
A. b. polyzonoides
A. b. cenchroides - photo by @fofo

A. b. dussumieri
A. b. badius
A. b. poliopsis - photo by @LaughingDove

Nicobar Sparrowhawk (Accipiter butleri)

Endemic to the northern and central Nicobar Islands.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. b. butleri
A. b. obsoletus

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout southeast Europe and southwest Russia into Asia Minor, the Caucasus and the Middle East, extending as far as western Kazakhstan; wintering populations are present in the northeastern Sahel zone of sub-Saharan Africa.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Chinese Sparrowhawk (Accipiter soloensis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the southern portions of the Russian Far East, northeast China and the Korean Peninsula into central and eastern China; the wintering range of this species extends patchily through southeast China and Hainan into the Philippines, Greater and Lesser Sundas and the northern Moluccas.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Nick@Amsterdam

Frances's Sparrowhawk (Accipiter francesiae)

The range of this species extends throughout Madagascar and the Comoro Islands to the north.

Four subspecies recognised:

A. f. griveaudi
A. f. pusillus
A. f. brutus
A. f. francesiae

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Spot-tailed Goshawk (Accipiter trinotatus)

Endemic to Sulawesi and surrounding offshore islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Lesser Sundas Goshawk (Accipiter sylvestris)

Endemic to the western and central Lesser Sundas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Variable Goshawk (Accipiter hiogaster)

The range of this species extends from the Moluccas, Aru Islands and West Papuan Islands into New Guinea, and from here into the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands.

Twenty-one subspecies recognised:

A. h. mortyi
A. h. griseogularis
A. h. obiensis
A. h. hiogaster
A. h. pallidiceps
A. h. polionotus
A. h. albiventris
A. h. leucosomus
A. h. misoriensis
A. h. pallidimas
A. h. misulae
A. h. manusi
A. h. matthiae
A. h. lavongai
A. h. lihirensis
A. h. dampieri
A. h. bougainvillei
A. h. rufoschistaceus
A. h. rubianae
A. h. pulchellus
A. h. malaitae

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Grey Goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae)

The range of this species extends throughout northern and eastern Australia and south into Tasmania.

Monotypic.

Photo by @nrg800

Grey-headed Goshawk (Accipiter poliocephalus)

The range of this species extends from the Aru and West Papuan Islands, throughout New Guinea and into the D’Entrecasteaux Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

New Britain Goshawk (Accipiter princeps)

Endemic to New Britain.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Lesser Sundas and southern Moluccas into New Guinea and Australia, and from here into the southern Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

A. f. natalis - photo by @Hix

A. f. stresemanni
A. f. wallacii
A. f. tjendanae
A. f. savu
A. f. hellmayri
A. f. polycryptus
A. f. dogwa
A. f. didimus
A. f. fasciatus - photo by @Hix

A. f. vigilax


Black-mantled Goshawk (Accipiter melanochlamys)

Endemic to montane rainforests of New Guinea.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. m. melanochlamys
A. m. schistacinus

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Pied Goshawk (Accipiter albogularis)

The range of this species extends throughout the Solomon Islands and Santa Cruz Islands.

Five subspecies recognised:

A. a. eichhorni
A. a. woodfordi
A. a. gilvus
A. a. albogularis
A. a. sharpei

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


White-bellied Goshawk (Accipiter haplochrous)

Endemic to New Caledonia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias

Fiji Goshawk (Accipiter rufitorques)

Endemic to the Fiji Islands.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias

Moluccan Goshawk (Accipiter henicogrammus)

Endemic to the northern Moluccas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Slaty-backed Goshawk (Accipiter luteoschistaceus)

Endemic to Umboi and New Britain in the southern Bismarck Archipelago.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Imitator Goshawk (Accipiter imitator)

Endemic to the northern and central Solomon Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Red-legged Sparrowhawk (Accipiter erythropus)

The range of this species extends throughout West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Senegal in the west to north-central DRC in the east, and south to northern Angola.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. e. erythropus
A. e. zenkeri

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Little Sparrowhawk (Accipiter minullus)

The range of this species extends throughout eastern and southern Africa, from Eritrea and Ethiopia in the north to southern Mozambique and Swaziland in the south, and from here south along coastal South Africa to the Cape and west into Angola and northern Namibia; absent from the Horn of Africa.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. m. minullus - photo by @Hix

A. m. tropicalis


Japanese Sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout south-central Siberia and northern Mongolia into the Russian Far East, northeast China and Korean Peninsula, and as far east as Japan; the wintering range of this species extends patchily from southeast China into the Philippines, Greater and Lesser Sundas and the southern Malay Peninsula.

Three subspecies recognised:

A. g. sibiricus
A. g. gularis - photo by @Nick@Amsterdam

A. g. iwasakii


Besra (Accipiter virgatus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southern and southeast Asia, from northwest Pakistan in the west, through the Himalayas into south-central and southeast China, to Taiwan in the east, and patchily south from here through northern and eastern Indochina, the Greater Sundas and Philippines; a disjunct population exists in the Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.

Eleven subspecies recognised:

A. v. kashmiriensis
A. v. affinis
A. v. fuscipectus
A. v. besra
A. v. abdulalii
A. v. confusus
A. v. quagga
A. v. rufotibialis
A. v. vanbemmeli
A. v. virgatus
A. v. quinquefasciatus

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Dwarf Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nanus)

Endemic to northern Sulawesi and Buton Island.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-necked Sparrowhawk (Accipiter erythrauchen)

The range of this species extends throughout the Moluccas.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. e. erythrauchen
A. e. ceramensis

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus)

The range of this species extends from the West Papuan and Aru Islands into New Guinea, and south from here throughout Australia and Tasmania.

Three subspecies recognised:

A. c. papuanus
A. c. rosselianus - photo by @Hix

A. c. cirrocephalus

 

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New Britain Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brachyurus)

The range of this species extends throughout New Britain and southern New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk (Accipiter rhodogaster)

The range of this species extends throughout Sulawesi and surrounding offshore islands into the Banggai and Sula Islands.

Three subspecies recognised:

A. r. rhodogaster
A. r. butonensis
A. r. sulaensis

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Madagascar Sparrowhawk (Accipiter madagascariensis)

Endemic to Madagascar.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Ovambo Sparrowhawk (Accipiter ovampensis)

The range of this species comprises a pair of major disjunct populations in sub-Saharan Africa; from Senegal and Sierra Leone in the west to the Central African Republic in the east; and from Uganda and northwest DRC in the north to southern Mozambique and northeast South Africa in the south, and west from here into Angola and northeast Namibia; patchy disjunct populations also exist in the Ethiopian Highlands.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the British Isles, Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa, through Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus into Tien Shan and throughout Siberia and northern Mongolia as far east as the Russian Far East, northeast China, Korean Peninsula and Japan; wintering populations are present throughout Europe, Asia Minor, and the Caucasus, south through the Middle East and Nile Valley into the eastern Sahel, and east throughout Asia south of the Himalayas into central and southeast China and northern Indochina. Populations in most of Europe, Asia Minor, the Korean Peninsula and Japan are resident.

Six subspecies recognised:

A. n. nisus - photo by @Maguari

A. n. nisosimilis
A. n. melaschistos
A. n. wolterstorffi
A. n. granti
A. n. punicus


Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk (Accipiter rufiventris)

The range of this species extends in a patchy and highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout eastern Africa, from Eritrea and the Ethiopian Highlands in the north to southern South Africa in the south.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. r. perspicillaris
A. r. rufiventris

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of North and South America, from Alaska and northern Canada throughout the USA, Mexico and Central America - including much of the Caribbean - and into the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, and from here throughout the Andes to central Bolivia, east into southern Brazil and south into Paraguay, Uruguay and northeast Argentina; populations in Alaska, Canada and the northern United States represent summer breeding populations which winter throughout the United States, Mexico and Central America.

Ten subspecies recognised:

A. s. perobscurus
A. s. velox - photo by @Ituri

A. s. suttoni
A. s. madrensis
A. s. fringilloides
A. s. striatus
A. s. venator
A. s. chionogaster
A. s. ventralis
A. s. erythronemius


Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from southern Canada throughout the USA into northwest Mexico; wintering populations extend from the northern USA into Mexico, and patchily south throughout Central America to Costa Rica and Panama.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari

Gundlach's Hawk (Accipiter gundlachi)

The range of this endemic species is restricted to a patchy and highly-fragmented distribution throughout Cuba.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. g. gundlachi
A. g. wileyi

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Bicolored Hawk (Accipiter bicolor)

The range of this species extends from southern Mexico throughout Central America and into much of South America east of the Andes, as far south as northeast Argentina, southern Brazil and Uruguay; a disjunct population extends throughout the Andes of central Chile and adjacent southern Argentina, south to Tierra del Fuego.

Five subspecies recognised:

A. b. fidens
A. b. bicolor - photo by @Juancho

A. b. pileatus
A. b. guttifer
A. b. chilensis


Henst's Goshawk (Accipiter henstii)

Endemic to Madagascar; absent from the arid interior and the southwest.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Black Sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus)

The range of this species extends from Guinea in the west to central Kenya in the east, and south to central Angola in the west and the coastal southeast of South Africa in the east; a disjunct population is present in eastern Sudan, northern and western Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. m. temminckii
A. m. melanoleucus

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)

The range of this species represents a widespread Holarctic distribution, from the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula, throughout Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus into Siberia, the Russian Far East and Japan, and from here into North America as far south as northwest Mexico in the west and northeast USA in the east; disjunct populations exist in the Himalayas and central China, with wintering populations throughout much of the central and eastern USA, southeast China and northern Indochina, and the Korean Peninsula. New World populations may merit species distinction.

Ten subspecies recognised:

A. g. gentilis - photo by @Maguari

A. g. buteoides
A. g. albidus
A. g. schvedowi - photo by @Himimomi

A. g. fujiyamae
A. g. arrigonii
A. g. marginatus - photo by @alexkant

A. g. atricapillus - photo by @Ituri

A. g. laingi
A. g. apache


Meyer's Goshawk (Accipiter meyerianus)

The range of this species extends from the Sula Islands and Moluccas , throughout the highlands of New Guinea and into the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Semi-collared Hawk (Accipiter collaris)

The range of this species extends throughout the foothills of the northern Andes from southwest Venezuela and northern Colombia, through Ecuador to northern Peru, with a disjunct population in the Andes of southern Peru.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Tiny Hawk (Accipiter superciliosus)

Awaiting redescription subsequent to studies suggesting this taxon does not merit inclusion within Accipiter. The range of this species extends patchily throughout southern Central America into much of South America east of the Andes, from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas in the north to central Bolivia and west-central Brazil in the south; a disjunct population exists in southeast Brazil, extending into northeast Argentina and southeast Paraguay.

Two subspecies recognised:

A. s. fontainieri
A. s. superciliosus

No photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Erythrotriorchis


Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis buergersi)

Endemic to montane regions of east-central to southeast New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal northern and eastern Australia, from the Kimberleys of northern Western Australia in the west to northern New South Wales in the east; a disjunct population has been reported from the arid interior of Australia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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[TeaLovingDave]

Megatriorchis


Doria's Goshawk (Megatriorchis doriae)

Endemic to the lowland regions of New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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