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Accipiter gentilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonym:
Family: Accipitridae
Order: Falconiformes
English: Northern goshawk
French: Autour des palombes
Spanish: Azor común
German: Habicht (There's a German version of this page!)
Norwegian: Hønsehauk / hønsehøk (There's a Norwegian version of this page!)
Migration: partial, mainly sedentary, intracontinental
Regions: East Asia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North Africa, North America, North Asia, South & Southeast Asia, West & Central Asia

map about the distribution of Accipiter gentilis 

“Mainly sedentary; partially migratory in northernmost populations of North America, Fenno-Scandia and Russia. Scale and extent of movements dictated by cycles of prey abundance in Arctic regions. Irruptions occur roughly every decade in North America, with birds reaching S USA and N Mexico. In Fenno-Scandia, movements far less extensive, not normally involving more than a few hundred kilometres. Migrants leave N areas mainly in Oct-Nov, returning to breeding zones in Mar-Apr.”
del Royo J & Elliot A & Sargatal J (eds) (1994), Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl, p. 163

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