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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Collared Sparrowhawk is a bird of prey with grey back and finely barred chest of reddish brown and white feathers. The sides of the neck are reddish brown It has bright yellow eyes The legs are yellow with long toes. Juvenile birds have brown backs and brown and white bars on the underside. It is very similar to the Brown Goshawk which is somewhat larger and has thicker legs and toes.
Size
30cm (male), 35cm - 38cm (female)
Habitat
forest, woodlands and along river courses
Food
mainly small birds
Breeding
lays 2-4 white eggs with blotches in a nest made of sticks and lined with leaves, placed high in a fork of a tree
Range
found across Australia, although not very common
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Falconiformes | | Family: | Accipitridae | | Genus: | Accipiter | | Species: | cirrocephalus | | Common Name: | Collared Sparrowhawk |
Relatives in same Genus
Brown Goshawk (A. fasciatus)
Grey Goshawk (A. novaehollandiae)
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