Brown Goshawk © mdahlem.net

Gliding

Soaring

Abundance (Guide)
C

Common and widespread, partially migratory to northern Australia in the winter.

Habitat
Heavily timbered regions, margins of watercourses and scrub.

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Subspecies natalis may belong to Grey Goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae) complex, or might even be separate species.

The following 13 subspecies are recognised:

• natalis (Lister, 1889)   -  Christmas I (Indian Ocean).
• tjendanae Stresemann, 1925   -  Sumba (Lesser Sundas).
• wallacii (Sharpe, 1874)   -  Lesser Sundas, from Lombok east to Babar.
• stresemanni Rensch, 1931   -  Islets between Sulawesi and Lesser Sundas.
• hellmayri Stresemann, 1922   -  Timor, Alor, Roti (Lesser Sundas).
• savu Mayr, 1941   -  Sawu (Lesser Sundas).
• polycryptus Rothschild & Hartert, 1915   -  Eastern New Guinea.
• buruensis Stresemann, 1914   -  Buru (Moluccas).
• dogwa Rand, 1941   -  Southern New Guinea.
• didimus (Mathews, 1912)   -  Northern Australia; Buru (southern Moluccas).
• fasciatus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)   -  Timor (Lesser Sundas); Australia and Tasmania; Rennell and Bellona Is (Solomons).
• vigilax (Wetmore, 1926)   -  New Caledonia, Loyalty Is, Vanuatu.
• rosselianus Mayr, 1940   -  Rossel Island, Lousiade Archaepeligo. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus).

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