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Learn about the Sparrowhawk, a small bird of prey that hunts birds in gardens and woodlands. See photos, calls, distribution map and tips to identify it from other raptors.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below.
Learn about the sparrowhawk, one of the smallest birds of prey in the UK, that hunts small birds in various habitats. Find out how to identify it, when to see it, and how to help its conservation.
Learn about the sparrowhawk, a small but skilled predator that hunts small birds and bats in woodland and gardens. Find out how to identify, spot and protect this native bird of prey.
Learn about the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a common bird of prey in the UK that hunts birds and small mammals in gardens and woodlands. Find out how to identify its appearance, behaviour, breeding, diet, and conservation status.
Sparrowhawks are widespread across Britain and Ireland, with a population that has completely recovered from a deep decline caused by the use of organochlorine pesticides in the 1950s and 1960s. Sparrowhawks avoid northern Scottish uplands and offshore islands.
Sparrowhawk, any of various small birds of prey usually of the genus Accipiter (family Accipitridae), classified with the goshawks as “accipiters,” or true hawks. They eat small birds such as sparrows, small mammals, and insects. The African little sparrowhawk (A. minullus), slate gray above with.
