Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
33 - 38 cm
Wingspan: 60 - 76 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Severtsov, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Albania (B) (NB), Armenia (B), Azerbaijan (B), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (P), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia (B) (P), Greece (B) (P), Hungary (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (P), Israel (P), Jordan (P), Kazakhstan (B), Lebanon (P), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Moldova [Republic of] (B) (NB), Montenegro (B), Romania (B), Russia (European) (B), Serbia (B), Spain (NB), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey (B), Ukraine (B), Yemen.

Vagrant to Austria, Bahrain, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Czech Republic, Italy, Kenya, Kuwait, Niger, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Tanzania [United Republic of], United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan.

South-eastern Europe, south-western Ukraine and southern Russia east to western Kazakhstan; more locally in Turkey, Caucasus and Iran. Thought to winter mainly in eastern Sahel zone of sub Saharan Africa.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes) [XC143001]
by id from Popina, Sitovo, Silistra, Bulgaria (song)

Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes) [XC418793]
by Andre et Odile BOUCHER from Tbilisi, Lisi Lake Green Zone, Georgia (call)

Subspecies
Formerly considered a subspecies of Shikra (Accipiter badius). Forms superspecies with Shikra (Accipiter badius) and Nicobar Sparrowhawk (Accipiter butleri).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes) - 10 files

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