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Sparrowhawks are small birds of prey. They're adapted for hunting birds in confined spaces like dense woodland, so gardens are ideal hunting grounds for them. Adult male Sparrowhawks have a bluish-grey back and wings and orangey-brown stripes on their chest and belly.
The sparrowhawk is a small bird of prey that can be found in all kinds of habitats and often visits gardens looking for its prey - small birds like finches, tits and sparrows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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1. Are sparrowhawks getting more common? While the sparrowhawk is now one of the most widespread birds of prey in Britain, until a few decades ago it was more or less extinct in many eastern counties. This was partly due to persecution, but also due to pesticide use in agriculture.
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