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| Accipiter nisus | (Linnaus, 1758) |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| English: | Eurasian sparrowhawk |
| French: | Épervier d'Europe |
| Spanish: | Gavilán común |
| German: | Schlegelsperber (There's a German version of this page!) |
| Norwegian: | Spurvehauk / Spurvehøk (There's a Norwegian version of this page!) |
| Migration: | partial, intracontinental |
| Regions: | East Asia, Europe, North Africa, North Asia, South & Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West & Central Asia |
“Migratory in northernmost parts of Europe and in most of Asia; partially migratory in C Europe; sedentary in S of range. Various C European countries receive N migrants, some of their breeding birds possibly migrating further S, reaching Mediterranean countries; most migration actually from NE to SW. Few migrants reach Africa, although some birds winter in N Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, occasionally S to Kenya and Tanzania. Siberian population winters in S & SE Asia.”
del Hoyo J & Elliot A & Sargatal J (eds) (1994), Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl, p. 158
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