Grey Goshawk
 Accipiter novaehollandiae

Grey Goshawk eating a Grassland Melomys (Melomys burtoni). 

Often referred to as the 'Chicken Hawk' (for it's fondness for domestic chicken as easy food) this magnificent bird of prey is often shot by unthinking keepers of domestic poultry. At Thylogale they prey on small mammals and birds and often take the emerging pouch young of the Red-legged pademelons. A small but very powerful hawk.

Length: 340-540mm.

Replay call

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Photographed at Thylogale
by David & Diane Armbrust