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GREY GOSHAWK FACTS |
Description
The Grey Goshawk is a medium sized hawk. There are two colour forms. The grey form has pale grey back and head and pale grey and white barring on underside. Thereis also an all white form known as the White Goshawk. Both forms have reddish eyes and yellow loegs
Other Names
White Goshawk
Size
40cm (male), 55cm (female)
Habitat
forest, woodland, tree-lined river plains and waterways
Food
small mammals, birds and reptiles.
Breeding
lays 2 or 3 white eggs in leaf-lined stick nest situated in tall tree. Grey and white forms interbreed.
Range
found along east coast of Queensland and New South Wales, much of Victoria and Tasmania. It is also found in northern parts of Northern Territory.
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: | novaehollandiae | | Common Name: | Grey Goshawk |
Relatives in same Genus
Collared Sparrowhawk (A. cirrocephalus)
Brown Goshawk (A. fasciatus)
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