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Alternative name: Spot-tailed Sparrowhawk
- Accipiter trinotatus
Identification
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
Monotypic[1]
Habitat
Moist lowland forests and mangrove forests.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.