And another thing, The Crested Hawk is now known as Pacific Baza. The Bazas
are, according to wiki, sometimes known as Cuckoo Hawks and the word Baza
itself comes from a Hindi word "baaz" - meaning Northern Goshawk.
Just thought you'd like to know!
Chris Gregory
On 31 March 2011 14:36, Kevin and Lizzie <> wrote:
> But...in a non-technical sense, the word Hawk can be used much more
> broadly, eg the Shorter OED suggests it can cover all diurnal raptors
> (as well as offering a more detailed definition, but still broader than
> just
> *accipitrinae*). And there are lots of species outside *acciptrinae *with
> hawk in their English name: Bat Hawk is one which springs to mind, and in
> North America plenty of *buteos.*
>
> **Kevin Stracey
> North Adelaide
>
> On 31 March 2011 12:29, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>
> > Basically yes - Accipters are commonly called Hawks, and many of them are
> > either Goshawks or Sparrowhawks, although some are just called Hawks and
> at
> > least one (Shikra) doesn;t mention Hawk at all. We have no Aussie birds
> > called "Hawks" without the Sparrow- or Gos- prefix. And to clarify all
> > Goshawks/Sparrowhawks are Hawks.
> >
> > On 31 March 2011 09:00, Mark and Amanda Young <
>
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > G'day everyone,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Are Goshawks a type of Hawk, or is a Hawk different from a Goshawk? A
> > > friend
> > > forwarded this wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accipitrinae to
> me
> > > showing that Goshawks and Hawks are together in the Genus Accipter .
> > >
> > > Now I don't know anything about how the classification of birds works,
> so
> > > does that mean that all birds that are in Accipter are essentially
> Hawks
> > > even though it may be called a Goshawk, or Sparrowhawk etc?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
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