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Name: Chinese Goshawk [Also known as Chinese Sparrowhawk]
Scientific name: (Accipiter soloensis)
Malay name: Helang Sewah Cina
Description:
30-36cm (12 –14in). Uniform dark slaty grey upperparts together with whitish underparts with orange suffusion on breast distinctive. Lacks dark mesial stripe or barrings on underparts. Central tail feathers usually uniform dark slaty-grey. In underwing flight pattern, shows pale unmarked wing and underparts which contrast with blackish wingtips. Central tail feathers show faint dark bands. Some sexual differentiation.
Voice:
Harsh shrill notes.
Range:
Breeding in Korea and China; wintering through Southeast Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago to New Guinea.
Status and distribution:
migrant and winter visitor in small numbers principally at low elevations. One estimate calculated numbers on migration to be about one ninth that of Japanese Sparrowhawk.
Habitat:
Forest, the forest edge, wooded areas.
Habits:
Solitary. Circles overhead and scrutinizes ground for prey. Usually hunts from perch. Migrates in small groups, sometimes mixed in with Japanese Sparrowhawks.
Interesting Facts:
The Chinese Goshawk is slightly larger than the Japanese Sparrowhawk. The Chinese Goshawk is also known as the Grey Frog Hawk for it lives on a diet composed practically entirely of frogs, but it also occasionally consumes lizards. Almost all prey is taken on the ground.
The female of the Chinese Goshawk in invariably larger than the male, sometimes weighing up to double the weight of the male.
The breeding range of the Chinese Goshawk is from Central China and Korea west to Szechuan. It winters mainly in the Philippines and North Celebes but also in Malaysia and neighboring islands.
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