- Accipiter gularis
Description
Photo taken: Putrajaya Wetland, Malaysia
Identification
Japanese Sparrowhawk (Japanese Lesser Sparrowhawk) Accipiter gularis RANGE North-East Asia. Breeds in eastern and southern Siberia, in eastern China, Korea and Japan.
Resident in southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands, South Korea, southern China and Taiwan. Northern breeders are migratory and winter from southern China, Thailand and Indochina south to the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia, most numerous on Sulawesi and the Greater Sundas, rarely east to Timor.
HABITAT Open forest, forest edge and cultivted land with scattered trees.