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

Alternative name: Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk

Accipiter trinotatus

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

Distribution

Sulawesi, Talisei, Muna and Butung islands in Indonesia.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Moist lowland forests and mangrove forests.

Behaviour

Gallery

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References

  1. 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/

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