Spur-hawk
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| Spur-hawk | |
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| Male capturin stirlin | |
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| Female shawin baured breist | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Faimily: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Accipiter |
| Species: | A. nisus |
| Binomial name | |
| Accipiter nisus | |
| Subspeshies | |
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A. n. granti | |
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| Range o A. nisus Breedin Resident Non-breedin Passage | |
| Synonyms | |
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Falco nisus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The Spur-hawk, blue hawk, blue merlin or gleg hawk (Accipiter nisus) is a smaw bird o prey in the faimily Accipitridae that includes mony ither diurnal Birds o prey sic as eagles an bizzarts. Adult male Spur-hawks haes bluish gray upperpairts an orange-strippit unnerpairts; females an bairns are broun abuin wi broun strips ablow. The male is up tae 25 % smawer nor the female - the lairgest differ atween the sexes in ony bird species.
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- ↑ BirdLife International (2013). "Accipiter nisus". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 26 November 2013. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
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