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 LC    Little Sparrowhawk* Id (Atlas):
    Accipiter minullus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Little Sparrowhawk, African Little Sparrowhawk

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
28 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Daudin, 1800)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry shrubland, mangroves.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Southern Sudan and Ethiopia south to South Africa and west to Angola and Namibia.
 
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 (23)...)

 
Little Sparrowhawk (Accipiter minullus) [XC697064]
     by Rory Nefdt from City of Matlosana (near Klerksdorp), Southern DC, North West, South Africa (flight call)

 
Little Sparrowhawk (Accipiter minullus) [XC298411]
     by Tony Archer from Choma, Southern, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Red-legged Sparrowhawk (Accipiter erythropus), and sometimes considered conspecific.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • tropicalis Reichenow, 1898   -  Southern Somalia coastally to eastern Mozambique.
  • minullus (Daudin, 1800)   -  Forests and thornscrub of eastern and southern Africa.



References
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Files:
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