Thanks for the replies Dave and Kevin. I am now just that little bit wiser
about our Hawks. (Go Hawthorn in 2011!!)
Regards,
Mark
From: Kevin and Lizzie
Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2011 2:36 PM
To: Dave Torr
Cc: Mark and Amanda Young;
Subject: Hawks in Australia
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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