Accipiter cirrocephalus

Collared Sparrowhawk at Kelly Park

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	Accipiter cirrocephalus	7 Feb 2021	ChrisAllen
	Accipiter cirrocephalus	7 Feb 2021	KylieWaldon

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Pretty sure this is an immature Collared Sparrowhawk. There is a breeding pair over between Wodonga TAFE and Latrobe University near University Drive. I saw it last Monday night after the pouring rain but thought it was a falcon, so returned this morning with camera to try my luck. Mud larks were suddenly in uproar; and here it was; doing a fly over though very much looking at the ground and hunting. lucky me.

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ChrisAllen wrote:

7 Feb 2021

Hi Kylie, its so tricky to pick between the Collared Sparrowhawks and the Brown Goshawks. Without a frame of reference for size the only reason I could identify it was the range of photos showing the tail feather. The square tail is a good indicator for a Collared Sparrowhawk, did you identify this in the field or after looking at your images?

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7 Feb 2021 10:15 AM Recorded on
KylieWaldon Recorded by

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Accipiter cirrocephalus Scientific name
Collared Sparrowhawk Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 814.48m Recorded at altitude
236 images trained Machine learning
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Accipiter (Paraspizias) cirrocephalus cirrocephalus Accipiter (Paraspizias) cirrocephalus

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