goshawks in English

noun
1
a large, short-winged hawk resembling a large sparrow hawk.
So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?

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1. The subfamily Accipitrinae includes goshAwks, sparrowhAwks, sharp-shinned hAwks and others

2. Of the accipiters (forest hawks), sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks and northern goshawks (Accipiter striatus, A. cooperii and A. gentilis) breed across Canada in forested areas.

3. Goshawks may Copulate as many as 500 to 600 times per clutch of eggs, while the Eurasian Skylark (which has been introduced onto Vancouver Island) Copulates but once

4. Accipiter, also known as Goshawks and Sparrowhawks , Accipiter francesii Anjouan Island Sparrowhawk , or Ndzuwani Goshawk Accipiter francesii pusillus , an extremely rare, possibly extinct, subspecies of Frances's Sparrowhawk

5. Nonetheless, Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) occasionally take Northern Saw-whet Owls (Frank Doyle, pers. comm.). Rates of nest predation have not been studied directly; however, Northern Sawwhet Owls are probably vulnerable to mammalian nest predators such as the American Marten (Martes americana).

6. A description has been given of a Goshawk in adult plumage, found dead in the forests of Hamm-Bossendorf, Siegerland, on February 16, 1971. The bird combines the characters of Central European Goshawks(Accipiter gentilis “gallinarum”) with those of large tropicals hawks, particularly ofA. melanoleucus, A. meyerianus andA. poliogaster.

7. The genus Accipiter is a group of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae, many of which are named as goshawks and sparrowhawks.They can be anatomically distinguished from their relatives by the lack of a procoracoid foramen.Two small and aberrant species usually placed here do possess a large procoracoid foramen and are also distinct as regards DNA sequence.

8. Secondary lead shot poisoning has now been documented in many locations in Europe and North America in various raptorial species, including Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles Aquila chrysaetos, Northern Goshawks Accipiter g. gentilis, European Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus, Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosus, Red-tailed Hawks Buteo jamaicensis, and Rough-legged Hawks Buteo lagopus (USFWS 1986; Pain and Amiard-Triquet 1993; Pain et al.