New Britain Sparrowhawk
Tachyspiza brachyura(Ramsay, EP, 1880)
English (US) New Britain Sparrowhawk
The New Britain Sparrowhawk (Tachyspiza brachyura) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Accipitridae (Kites, Old World Vultures, Eagles, and Hawks) in the order Accipitriformes.
Range: New Britain (southeastern Bismarck Archipelago)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tachyspiza brachyura
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- New Britain Sparrowhawk
- Described by
- (Ramsay, EP, 1880)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Astur brachyurus
- Described by
- (Ramsay, EP, 1880)
- Type locality
- 'Thirty miles inland' = New Britain.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4 p.465
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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