{"id":25447,"date":"2012-11-05T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/large-landbirds\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:15:23","slug":"sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/large-landbirds\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasian (or Northern) Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, harriers and other sparrowhawks. It is a widespread species throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World. Birds from colder regions of north Europe and Asia migrate south for the winter, some to north Africa (some as far as equatorial east Africa) and India.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Eurasian Sparrowhawk\u00a0<i>Accipiter\u00a0nisus<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-319-25447\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2419\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus.jpg\" title=\"Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) at Gubbeen, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) at Gubbeen, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland\" alt=\"Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus\/thumbs\/thumbs_sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2418\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus-2.jpg\" title=\"Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) at Croagh Bay, Gubbeen, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) at Croagh Bay, Gubbeen, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland\" alt=\"Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus\/thumbs\/thumbs_sparrow-hawk-accipiter-nisus-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasian (or Northern) Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, harriers and other sparrowhawks. It is a widespread species throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World. Birds from colder regions of north Europe and Asia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":828038,"parent":17615,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[1941,2074],"class_list":["post-25447","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-accipiter-nisus","tag-sparrow-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25447\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}