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- Accipiter gentilis
Identification
- Robust bird
- Long narrow tail
- Short rounded wings
- Bold white eyebrow
Adult
- Blue-grey above
- Black crown
- Pale underparts finely barred with grey
Immature Brown above and streaked below
Distribution
In America, breeds from Alaska east through Mackenzie and northern Quebec to Newfoundland, and south to New Mexico, Great Lakes, and New England; also southward to northern Appalachians. Winters south to Virginia and Southwest. A widespread species in the Western Palearctic breeding from Iberia east to the Black Sea and Caucasus and north to northern Scandinavia and Arctic Russia.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Deciduous or coniferous woodland interspersed with open areas. Often over more open country in winter.
Behaviour
Vocalisation
Usually silent, sometimes lets out a loud kak-kak-kak-kak-kak when disturbed.
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