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Adult
Photo © by THE_FERN.
Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia, July 2023

Alternative name: Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk

Identification

Immature
Photo © by martinuk
Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia, 1 October, 2009

26-30 cm.

head and upper parts grey. Mantle slightly darker than head
chest with pale peachy suffusion becoming whiter towards belly
belly and under tail coverts off-white, buffy; becoming whiter distally
under wing largely pale with dark primary fingers and a dark edge to the wing all the way around: leading and (especially) trailing edge. Primaries with more or less prominent black barring
under tail blackish with prominent white spots which look like bars
upper tail blackish with two prominent white central lozenge-shaped white spots
facial skin peachy orange
legs chrome yellow
eye very large, dark
bill dark

Sulawesi, Talisei, Muna and Butung islands in Indonesia.

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Moist lowland forests and mangrove forests.

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Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Spot-tailed Goshawk. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 21 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Spot-tailed_Goshawk

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