Red Goshawk

Red Goshawk

Taxobox
name = Red Goshawk
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = stable
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Falconiformes
familia = Accipitridae
genus = "Erythrotriorchis"
species = "E. radiatus"
binomial = "Erythrotriorchis radiatus"
binomial_authority = (Latham, 1802)
The Red Goshawk ("Erythrotriorchis radiatus") is probably the rarest Australian bird of prey. It is found mainly in the savanna woodlands of northern Australia, particularly near watercourses. It takes a broad range of live prey, mostly birds.

The Red Goshawk used to be regarded as a very large member of the goshawk subfamily, but it is now believed that the goshawk resemblance is convergent. Experts now group the Red Goshawk with the superficially dissimilar Black-breasted Buzzard and Square-tailed Kite as one of the Australasian old endemic raptors. It is believed that the ancestors of these birds, possibly together with a handful of species from South-east Asia and Africa, occupied Gondwana and over the millennia have diverged into their current forms.

References

* Database entry includes a range map, a brief justification of why this species is vulnerable, and the criteria used

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3469&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]
*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Erythrotriorchis_radiatus/ images and movies of the red goshawk "(Erythrotriorchis radiatus)"]


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