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English Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Scientific (Accipiter nisus)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Accipitridae
Family (English) Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Other name(s) Epervier d'Europe, European Sparrowhawk, Sparrowhawk
Regions EU
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions OR, ne AF
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Nepal,Somalia,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Portugal,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Bangladesh,Mali,Croatia,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,India - mainland,Malta,Algeria,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Ukraine,Romania,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Belgium,Monaco,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Libya,North Korea,Syria,Mongolia,Hungary,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Macao,China,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Oman,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Qatar,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Djibouti,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Moldova,Spain,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Italy,Bhutan,Yemen,Gambia,Myanmar,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Andorra,Albania,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,South Sudan,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
nisus Europe to sw Siberia and c Asia
nisosimilis nw Siberia to n China and Japan
dementjevi Pamir-Alai to Tien Shan Mts (c Asia)
melaschistos e Afghanistan to sw China
wolterstorffi Corsica and Sardinia
punicus nw Africa
granti Madeira and Canary Is.
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
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German Sperber
French Épervier d’Europe
Chinese 雀鹰
Japanese ハイタカ
Russian Перепелятник
Spanish Gavilán común
Portuguese gavião-da-europa
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)