Tachyspiza cirrocephala

1 Collared Sparrowhawk at Conder, ACT

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Identification history

	Tachyspiza cirrocephala	7 Jan 2026	Liam.m
	Tachyspiza cirrocephala	13 Nov 2025	MichaelBedingfield

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From my kitchen I heard a loud bang. I looked out the window. This hawk had hit a Crested Pigeon with full force and then crashed into my tin shed. It kept the pigeon pinned down for a while. Then it tried to fly away with its prey. The pigeon was too heavy, so it dragged the poor bird in behind a bush an began plucking and eating it. Eventually all that was left was a few feathers. Conder, ACT.

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MichaelBedingfield wrote:

13 Nov 2025

I believe this is a collared sparrow hawk, because of its small size (just slightly bigger than the pigeon) and the squarish tail tip.

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30 Jul 2025 05:08 PM Recorded on
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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
Synonyms
Accipiter (Paraspizias) cirrocephalus cirrocephalus Accipiter (Paraspizias) cirrocephalus

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