sparrowhawk
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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *sparwahabuk, from Proto-Germanic *sparwahabukaz, equivalent to sparrow + hawk. Cognate with Danish spurvehøg (“sparrowhawk”), Swedish sparvhök (“sparrowhawk”), Icelandic sparrhaukur (“sparrowhawk”).
Noun
[edit]sparrowhawk (plural sparrowhawks)
- A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
- Any of numerous other relatively small birds of Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.
- Alternative form of sparrow hawk; American kestrel, Falco sparverius, of similar size and habit.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from sparrowhawk
- African little sparrowhawk (Accipiter minullus)
- American sparrowhawk (Falco sparverius)
- black sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus)
- chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk (Accipiter castanilius)
- Chinese sparrowhawk (Accipiter soloensis)
- collared sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus)
- Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
- dwarf sparrowhawk (Accipiter nanus)
- Frances’s sparrowhawk (Accipiter francesiae)
- great sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus)
- Hilgert's sparrowhawk (Accipiter ovampensis)
- imitator sparrowhawk (Accipiter imitator)
- Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis)
- Levant sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes)
- little sparrowhawk (Accipiter minullus)
- Madagascan sparrowhawk (Accipiter madagascariensis)
- New Britain sparrowhawk (Accipiter brachyurus)
- Nicobar sparrowhawk (Accipiter butleri)
- northern sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
- Ovambo sparrowhawk (Accipiter ovampensis)
- red-legged sparrowhawk (Accipiter erythropus)
- red-thighed sparrowhawk (Accipiter erythropus)
- rufous-breasted sparrowhawk (Accipiter rufiventris)
- rufous-chested sparrowhawk (Accipiter rufiventris)
- rufous-necked sparrowhawk (Accipiter erythrauchen)
- slaty-backed sparrowhawk (Accipiter luteoschistaceus)
- slaty-mantled sparrowhawk (Accipiter luteoschistaceus)
- small sparrowhawk (Accipiter nanus)
- spot-tailed sparrowhawk (Accipiter trinotatus)
- vinous-breasted sparrowhawk (Accipiter rhodogaster)
- western little sparrowhawk (Accipiter erythropus)
Translations
[edit]Eurasian sparrowhawk — see Eurasian sparrowhawk
any of many other species of Accipiter
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Further reading
[edit]Sparrowhawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Eurasian sparrowhawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Accipiter nisus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Accipiter nisus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “sparrowhawk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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