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Mar 10, 2018

Sparrowhawk hunts near Pomanz, Hungary

Photo: Attila Kovacs / EPA
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
        (Accipiter nisus)       
Photo: Wikipedia

The Eurasian Sparrowhawk is also known as the Northern Sparrowhawk or just Sparrowhawk.   The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), a North American falcon species, is also commonly referred to as a sparrowhawk.   Hawk species include 21 different sparrowkawk species.   The Eurasian Sparrowhawk is found throughout Europe, in coastal northwestern Africa and in sub-arctic forests of Asia.







American Kestrel 
photo (left)
by Michael Sagatova





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