Brown Goshawk
Accipiter fasciatus

The Brown Goshawk is also often referred to as the Chicken Hawk because of their fondness for domestic chickens. They feed on other birds, small mammals, reptiles, frogs and large insects. We have observed them taking the young of pademelons here at Thylogale. 

They are found over a wide range of habitats and forest types but predominantly in eucalypt forest especially along watercourses.

Males: 370-400mm

Females: 430-460mm

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Photographed and call recorded at Thylogale
by David & Diane Armbrust