{"id":6554,"date":"2017-07-24T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/?p=6554"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:25:59","slug":"northern-goshawk-accipiter-gentilis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/?p=6554","title":{"rendered":"Northern Goshawk
Accipiter gentilis<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

>> GENERAL >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

– medium-sized raptor
\n– female roughly size of Common Buzzard<\/a>, male considerably smaller
\n– diurnal migrant
\n– migrates singly<\/p>\n

>> VISUAL ID >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1476, 04\/12\/2010, Leipzig, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– brown toned all over, pale tips of upperwing coverts diagnostic for JUV plumage
\n– distinct barring of remiges from above -> JUV Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/a>
\n–\u00a0tail rounded (compare with AD)<\/p>\n

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\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1477, 04\/12\/2010, Leipzig, Germany, Mathias Putze
\nsame as BIF 1476
\n– buffish body and underwing coverts with streaking (barring on\u00a0Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/a>)
\n– streaking confided to breast and upper belly,
\n– evenly distict bold barring of tail and remiges<\/p>\n

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\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1479, 15\/12\/2010, Leipzig, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– stronger body than Eurasian Sparrowhawk
\n– in fast flight strikingly \u201aS\u2018-shaped, broad dusky trailing edge to the wing<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1478, 15\/12\/2010, Leipzig, Germany, Mathias Putze
\nsame as BIF1479
\n– can appear fairly narrow-handed when gliding<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis<\/em> ssp., 2CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1480, 30\/03\/2012, Besh Barmag, Azerbaijan, MHE
\n– after postjuvenile moult the head and back of 2CY in spring appear greyer than in 1CY (note that P5 is missing)<\/p>\n

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\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis<\/em> ssp., 2CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1481, 30\/03\/2012, Besh Barmag, Azerbaijan, MHE
\nsame as BIF 1480
\n– typical JUV tail pattern: dark brown bars alternating with pale brown-grey bars of roughly the same width<\/p>\n

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\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, AD F<\/strong>
\nBIF1473, 17\/03\/2013, Hof, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– AD are all grey without any brown tones
\n– only faint barring of secondaries and inner primaries
\ncompared to AD Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/a>:
\n– lacks dusky trailing edge to the wing
\n– very dense and finer barring of body and wing coverts
\n– rounded \u201acorners\u2018 of tail<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, AD F<\/strong>
\nBIF1472, 17\/03\/2013, Hof, Germany, Mathias Putze
\nsame as 1473
\n– sexed as F by more boldly marked outer primaries and less solid ear-mask (compare with M on BIF1474)
\n– note fluffed out pure white undertail coverts during displaying period<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1474, 04\/08\/2016, Greifswald, Germany, MHE
\n– pronounced \u201aS\u2018-shaped trailing edge of wing with bulging outer secondaries and narrow hand
\n– distictive, broad white supercilium ->\u00a0Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1482, 30\/10\/2011, Havelland, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– a rather strongly patterned 1CY individual<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1483, 16\/12\/2010, Leipzig, Mathias Putze<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nNorthern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis<\/em>, AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1484, 29\/10\/2012, Werbeliner See, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– broad white supercilium striking even at greater distance<\/p>\n

>> ACOUSTIC ID >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

– usually nonvocal during migration<\/p>\n

>> COMPARISON SPECIES >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/a> (v)
\nLevant Sparrowhawk<\/a> (v)
\nShikra (v)<\/p>\n

#raptor #birdofprey #birdsofprey<\/p>\n

#ornithology #birdmigration #birdID #birdguide #birding #birdwatching #birdsound #westernpalearctic #europe #vismig #flightcalls #middleeast #northernafrica #workinprogress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

>> GENERAL >>>>> – medium-sized raptor – female roughly size of Common Buzzard, male considerably smaller – diurnal migrant – migrates singly >> VISUAL ID >>>>> Northern Goshawk Accipiter g. gentilis, 1CY BIF1476, 04\/12\/2010, Leipzig, Germany, Mathias Putze – brown toned all over, pale tips of upperwing coverts diagnostic for JUV plumage – distinct barring … Continue reading Northern Goshawk
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