Brown Goshawk
Brown Goshawk（学名：Accipiter fasciatus），是鹰形目鹰科鹰属的鸟类。上体呈灰色，颈背有栗色领圈，下体主要为红褐色，带有细密的白色条纹。分布广泛，主要栖息于澳大利亚及周边岛屿的桉树森林、灌木丛、农田和城市区域。
Brown Goshawk
40-50 cm; span 70 cm to c. 1 m. Female larger. Powerful yellow-eyed hawk with heavy beetle-brow; long, yellowish legs, powerful feet and talons.Adult: powdery grey-brown above with rufous rear collar; underparts finely barred rufous and white.Juvenile: dark brown above, off-white below with heavy brown splashes on upperbreast; dark brown V-bars on flanks become bold rufous bars in imm. (second year) plumage. Bars become narrower and paler and extend to upperbreast in adult. Singles, pairs: flies heavily with quick wingbeats and glides on broad, slightly arched wings; note longish rounded tail. Slips through trees, along hedges, to surprise prey; ambushes from cover. Aggressive when nesting. In sunny weather, soars high on slightly upswept wings with straight trailing edge, tail fanned. N. Aust. race didimus smaller, paler.
- Other name
- Australian Goshawk.
- Similar Species
- Collared Sparrowhawk. Brown Falcon.
- Voice
- rapid 'kikikiki!'; deeper mellow 'yuik-yuik-yuik'.
- Habitat
- open forests, woodlands, scrublands and margins; farmlands, golf courses, sewage farms, parks, gardens.
- Breeding
- Sept.-Dec. Nest: flattish; of sticks, lined with green leaves; 6-20 m up in living tree; mistletoe-clump, or old nest of other raptor.
- Eggs
- 2-4; plain blue-white, faintly blotched red-brown.
- Range & Status
- Aust. and Tas: common, widespread. Sedentary and part-migratory; suspected winter movement to n. Aust., overlapping range of sedentary tropical race didimus. Also NG, New Cal.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Accipiter fasciatus fasciatus 2. Accipiter fasciatus didimus 3. Accipiter fasciatus natalis (Christmas I.)
