Collared Sparrowhawk and Brown Goshawk comparison. COLLARED SPARROWHAWK I would think that a female Little Falcon could quite conceivably have a male Collared Sparrowhawk … In the Pacific, it mainly inhabits rainforest. The tail shape is another with the Goshawk having the rounded tail and the CSH having a.....well you can see it here. Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) – female Canon 5DIII, Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 II USM 1/1000, f/8.0, ISO 200. I think the most definite answer was that of Mr. Stephen Debus, which concluded that he favors the bird as a Brown Goshawk. The battle of the baby birds…. Hopefully someone else with a lot more insight can be more useful to you than I. The long legs are yellow, with reddish brown feathering about the thighs. The Pied Butcherbirds and Magpies were making a fuss so I grabbed the camera and went outside. We examined 80 Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus and 27 Collared Sparrowhawk A. cirrocephalus collections of prey remains and pellets. The … Hi all, Observed from my front yard in Albion Park this morning were 2 similar looking raptors. The Goshawk wears the baggy pants and the CSH has long clean legs. These pics dont show the difference in the length of the middle toe but that will probably be hard to use as identification anyway. Bird ID Correction from 01 March 2017 Brown Goshawk v Collared Sparrowhawk At our visit to Macalister Wetlands back in March, we [probably, me/I] called an overflying raptor a female, juvenile Brown Goshawk. The Brown Goshawk also has a heavy brow, giving it a fierce look, and thicker legs and toes. The underwing shows brown and white coverts, and grey and white barred flight feathers. or is it a goshawk…? and the latest from our backyard: the teenagers start hunting for themselves… Sibling rivalry amongst the young serial killers…. BROWN GOSHAWK. The following percentages are taken from HANZAB: For Brown Goshawk: outer toe c. 70% of length of middle toe; For Collared Sparrowhawk: outer toe c. 63 – 67% of length of middle toe. The upperparts are rufous-brown with blackish spots. The eye is bright yellow. Collared Sparrowhawk - Accipiter cirrocephalus. A couple of Collared Sparrowhawks were giving a young magpie some trouble and the older magpies were swooping the sparrowhawks. Males are smaller than females. Young birds have grey-brown eyes, with brown, streaky plumage. There are several subspecies, with the northern sub-species, didimus, being generally smaller and paler. On birding sites people often post an image and ask which of the two species it shows, and then the fun begins. The Red Goshawk has longer wings and more rufous plumage on the lower underparts. More sparrowhawk stories from our backyard. Regards, Mark -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of N & R Coghlan Sent: Saturday, 6 June 2009 2:34 PM To: Subject: Brown Goshawk/Collared Sparrowhawk? The votes were cast as follows: Brown Goshawk (BG) 10 vs. Collared Sparrowhawk (CS) 2, which means that the “jury” has been almost unanimous in its verdict: the bird in the photos is a Brown Goshawk. This morning I was alerted to some action happening outside my accommodation. collared sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus)-2138 by shorty, on Flickr">[/url]collared sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus)-2138 by shorty, on Flickr Whilst "cleaning up" my bird images on the computer today, I looked again and decided I may not have been correct. Most species are called goshawks or sparrowhawks, although almost all New World species (excepting the northern goshawk) are simply known as hawks.They can be anatomically distinguished from their relatives by the lack of a procoracoid foramen. We examined 80 Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus and 27 Collared Sparrowhawk A. cirrocephalus collections of prey remains and pellets. When you have worked out how to accurately measure that in the field let me know. The end of the brush turkey plague? There’s a collared sparrowhawk nesting in our garden…. Anyone who has ever tried to identify between a Brown Goshawk and a Collared Sparrowhawk will understand the usual dilemma. They were obtained from 2002 to 2010 within 30 km of Canberra (ACT) from 36 Goshawk and nine Sparrowhawk breeding events in 24 and six territories, respectively. The brown goshawk is widespread through Australia, Wallacea, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji. They have a grey head, brown neck and brown and white thinly barred front (breast, belly, vent). The upperwings are grey, the tail is barred grey. The genus Accipiter includes 51 species from the whole world, goshawks, sparrowhawks and hawks, often known as the “true hawks”. The Brown Goshawk is very similar in plumage to the related raptor (bird of prey) species, the Collared Sparrowhawk, A. cirrhocephalus, which has a notched or square-tipped tail rather than rounded, and has thinner legs and toes and lacks the Brown Goshawk's heavy brow. Brown Goshawks are small raptors. And here is a juvi S Hawk, note the brown eye. Accipiter is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.With 51 recognized species it is the most diverse genus in its family. We have observed a Collared Sparrowhawk carry its prey, a Noisy Miner, to the edge of the water of an ornamental pond, where we later found signs of the bird having been plucked - an expert explained to us that goshawks of the genus Accipiter have the habit of sometimes drowning their prey.