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| Accipiter gentilis | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| English: | Northern goshawk |
| French: | Autour des palombes |
| Spanish: | Azor común |
| German: | Habicht (There's a German version of this page!) |
| Norwegian: | Hønsehauk / hønsehøk (There's a Norwegian version of this page!) |
| Migration: | partial, mainly sedentary, intracontinental |
| Regions: | East Asia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North Africa, North America, North Asia, South & Southeast Asia, West & Central Asia |
“Mainly sedentary; partially migratory in northernmost populations of North America, Fenno-Scandia and Russia. Scale and extent of movements dictated by cycles of prey abundance in Arctic regions. Irruptions occur roughly every decade in North America, with birds reaching S USA and N Mexico. In Fenno-Scandia, movements far less extensive, not normally involving more than a few hundred kilometres. Migrants leave N areas mainly in Oct-Nov, returning to breeding zones in Mar-Apr.”
del Royo J & Elliot A & Sargatal J (eds) (1994), Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl, p. 163
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