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Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk
Erythrotriorchis buergersi
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| Status: Data Deficient |
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| Population Trend: Unknown. |
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| Other Names: Buerger's Goshawk, Buergers's Goshawk, Bürgers's Hawk, Buerger's Sparrowhawk. |
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| Distribution: Australasian. Endemic to northern and eastern NEW GUINEA. more.... |
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| Subspecies: Monotypic. |
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| Taxonomy: Placed in the genus Accipiter by Stresemann and Amadon (1979) and Amadon and Bull (1988), who were followed by Coates (1985), but now considered to form part of an older Australasian group. Forms a superspecies with the Red Goshawk, E. radiatus, of Australia. more.... |
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| Movements: Probably non-migratory. |
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| Habitat and Habits: Frequents hill and lower mountain forest (Coates 1985, Beehler et al. 1986). Beehler (1978) indicated that it was confined to undisturbed forest in the Wau area. Not known to soar and is probably very secretive, judging from the paucity of records. |
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| Food and Feeding Behavior: According to Beehler et al. (1986), this species preys on birds. |
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| Breeding: No information. |
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| Conservation: Diamond (1972) knew of only eight specimens of this species, and he regarded it as the rarest of the New Guinea hawk species. According to the BirdLife International "Data Zone" site, there have been no records of this species in the last five years. Categorized as "Data Deficient" by BirdLife International. |
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Important References:
Beehler, B.M. 1978. Upland birds of northeastern New Guinea. Wau Ecology
Institute Handbook no. 4, Wau, Papua New Guinea.
Beehler, B.M., T.K. Pratt, and D.A. Zimmerman. 1986. Birds of New Guinea.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
BirdLife International. 2006. Species factsheet: Erythrotriorchis
buergersi. http://www.birdlife.org.
Coates, B.J. 1985. The birds of Papua New Guinea, including the Bismarck
Archipelago and Bougainville. Vol. I. Non-passerines. Dove Publications,
Alderley, Queensland, Australia.
Debus, S.J.S. 1994. Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk. P. 163 in del Hoyo, J.,
A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (eds). Handbook of birds of the world. Vol. 2.
New World vultures to guineafowl. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Diamond, J.M. 1972. Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea.
Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club no. 12.
Ferguson-Lees, J., and D.A. Christie. 2001. Raptors of the world. Houghton
Mifflin, Boston, MA.
Thiollay, J.-M. Family Accipitridae. Pp. 52-105 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliot,
and J. Sargatal (eds.), Handbook of birds of the world. Vol. 2. New World
vultures to guineafowl. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
van Balen, B.S. 1998. Tropical forest raptors in Indonesia: recent
information on distribution, status, and conservation. Journal of Raptor
Research 32:56-63.
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Last modified: 6/5/2010 |
Recommended Citation: Global Raptor Information Network. 2017. Species account: Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk Erythrotriorchis buergersi. Downloaded from http://www.globalraptors.org on 20 Aug. 2017
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