Accipitrinae
| True hawk | |
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| Sharp-shinned hawk | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Subfamily: | Accipitrinae |
| Genera | |
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4 genera. See below. | |
Hyderabad, India
.The Accipitrinae are the
Megatriorchis. The large and widespread genus Accipiter includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, the sharp-shinned hawk and others. They are primarily woodland birds that hunt by sudden dashes from a concealed perch, with long tails, broad wings and high visual acuity facilitating this lifestyle. In light of recent genetic research, the kites of the traditional subfamily Milvinae
may also belong to this group.
Hawks, including the accipitrines, are believed to have vision several times sharper than
humans, in part because of the great number of photoreceptor cells in their retinas (up to 1,000,000 per square mm, against 200,000 for humans), a very high number of nerves connecting the receptors to the brain, and an indented fovea, which magnifies the central portion of the visual field
.
Species in taxonomic order
- Subfamily Accipitrinae
- Genus Accipiter
- African goshawk, A. tachiro (Daudin, 1800)
- American goshawk, A. atricapillus (Wilson, 1812)
- Besra, A. virgatus (Temminck, 1822)
- Bicolored hawk, A. bicolor (Vieillot, 1817)
- Black sparrowhawk, A. melanoleucus Smith, A, 1830
- Brown goshawk, A. fasciatus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)
- Chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk, A. castanilius Bonaparte, 1853
- Chinese sparrowhawk, A. soloensis (Horsfield, 1821)
- Christmas goshawk, Accipiter fasciatus natalis
- Collared sparrowhawk, A. cirrocephalus (Vieillot, 1817)
- Cooper's hawk, A. cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)
- Crested goshawk, A. trivirgatus (Temminck, 1824)
- Blasius, W, 1897)
- Linnaeus, 1758)
- Linnaeus, 1758)
- Peale, 1849)
- Frances's sparrowhawk, A. francesiae Smith, A, 1834
- Grey goshawk, A. novaehollandiae (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
- Grey-bellied hawk, A. poliogaster (Temminck, 1824)
- Grey-headed goshawk, A. poliocephalus Gray, GR, 1858
- Gundlach's hawk, A. gundlachi Lawrence, 1860
- Henst's goshawk, A. henstii (Schlegel, 1873)
- Imitator sparrowhawk, A. imitator Hartert, EJO, 1926
- Japanese sparrowhawk, A. gularis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
- Severtsov, 1850)
- Little sparrowhawk, A. minullus (Daudin, 1800)
- Madagascar sparrowhawk, A. madagascariensis Verreaux, J, 1833
- Moluccan goshawk, A. henicogrammus (Gray, GR, 1861)
- Meyer's goshawk, A. meyerianus (Sharpe, 1878)
- New Britain goshawk, A. princeps Mayr, 1934
- New Britain sparrowhawk, A. brachyurus (Ramsay, EP, 1880)
- Nicobar sparrowhawk, A. butleri (Gurney, JH Jr, 1898)
- Ovambo sparrowhawk, A. ovampensis Gurney, JH Sr, 1875
- Pied goshawk, A. albogularis Gray, GR, 1870
- Sclater, PL, 1866
- des Murs, 1855)
- Red-thighed sparrowhawk, A. erythropus (Hartlaub, 1855)
- Rufous-chested sparrowhawk, A. rufiventris Smith, A, 1830
- Rufous-necked sparrowhawk, A. erythrauchen Gray, GR, 1861
- Rufous-thighed hawk, A. erythronemius (Kaup, 1850)
- Sharp-shinned hawk, A. striatus Vieillot, 1808
- Shikra, A. badius (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
- Rothschild & Hartert, EJO, 1926
- Spot-tailed sparrowhawk, A. trinotatus Bonaparte, 1850
- Sulawesi goshawk, A. griseiceps (Kaup, 1848)
- Vinous-breasted sparrowhawk, A. rhodogaster (Schlegel, 1862)
- Sclater, PL, 1859
- Genus Erythrotriorchis
- Chestnut-shouldered goshawk, E. buergersi (Reichenow, 1914)
- Red goshawk, E. radiatus (Latham, 1801)
- Genus Megatriorchis
- Doria's goshawk, M. doriae Salvadori & D'Albertis, 1875
- Genus Accipiter
Several genera or species formerly classified in this subfamily, such as
Hawks and humans
Hawks are sometimes used in falconry, a sport in which trained birds of prey are flown at small game for sport.
References
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- ISSN 2625-8498.
External links
- Hawk videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Hawk photos taken on the central coast of California.