Tachyspiza cirrocephala

2 Collared Sparrowhawk at Braidwood, NSW

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Identification history

Tachyspiza cirrocephala	10 Oct 2023	natureguy
Tachyspiza fasciata	10 Oct 2023	CarbonAI
Tachyspiza cirrocephala	10 Oct 2023	MatthewFrawley

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Walked into yard to be confronted with a raucous noise which turned out to be the dying sounds of what looked like a Common Starling, which was in the clutches of this hawk and which the hawk proceeded to devour!

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MatthewFrawley wrote:

10 Oct 2023

Guessed Collared Sparrowhawk from the size, it was quite slender and smallish.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.792090 -35.454542
Places Braidwood, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
9 Oct 2023 05:36 PM Recorded on
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72 Araluen Road Birds Birds of prey MatthewFrawley Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

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

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New South Wales

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South Australia

Victoria

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