Description:

The largest accipiter, with comparatively long wing, with bulging secondaries and relatively short tail. Male has grey upperparts, white supercilium and finely barred underparts. Female is considerably larger, with browner upperparts. Juvenile has heavy streaking on buff-coloured underparts.

Distribution:

Uncommon passage migrant through the central and western parts of Gilgit-Baltistan. Wide range of open woodland, scrub forest, wooded cultivations, oak and high-altitude coniferous forest, sometimes above the tree line up to 4000m.

Behavior:

Hunts from hidden perch or with inconspicuous surveying flight; prey mainly caught on ground, typically in clearings and around edges of woods. Hunts small and medium-sized birds and mammals, up to size of grouse, even hares; other vertebrates normally of minor importance. Not specialized, and relative importance of birds or mammals varies from one region to another.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Northern Goshawk in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Northern Goshawk

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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