Astur (genus)

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Astur (genus)

Astur is a genus containing hawks, goshawks and sparrowhawks in the family Accipitridae. The species were formerly placed in the genus Accipiter.

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Astur
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Eurasian goshawk (Astur gentilis)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Accipitrinae
Genus: Astur
Lacépède, 1799
Type species
Falco gentilis
Linnaeus, 1758
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The genus Astur was introduced in 1799 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède.[1] The type species was later designated by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Vigors as Falco palumbarius Linnaeus, 1758, now considered as a junior synonym of Falco gentilis Linnaeus, 1758, the Eurasian goshawk.[2][3] The name is from Latin astur, asturis meaning "hawk".[4]

Species now placed in this genus were formerly assigned to the genus Accipiter. Molecular phylogenetic studies found that Accipiter was polyphyletic and in the subsequent rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the genus Astur was resurrected in 2024 to contain nine species that were previously placed in Accipiter.[5][6][7]

The genus contains nine species:[7]

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Genus Astur Lacépède, 1799 – nine species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Cooper's hawk

Astur cooperii
(Bonaparte, 1828)
southern Canada to Mexico
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Gundlach's hawk

Astur gundlachi
(Lawrence, 1860)

Two subspecies
  • A. g. gundlachi - (Lawrence, 1860)
  • A. g. wileyi - (Wotzkow, 1991)
Cuba.
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Bicolored hawk

Astur bicolor
(, )

Four subspecies
  • A. b. bicolor - (Vieillot, 1817)
  • A. b. fidens - (Bangs & Noble, 1918)
  • A. b. guttifer - (Hellmayr, 1917)
  • A. b. pileatus - (Temminck, 1823)
Mexico to west Ecuador, the Guianas to Colombia, south to east Peru, through Amazonian Brazil to Paraguay, north-northwestern Argentina,north of Uruguay,Bolivia and to Chile
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Chilean hawk

Astur chilensis
(Philippi & Landbeck, 1864)
central Chile and western Argentina south to Tierra del Fuego,
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Black sparrowhawk

Astur melanoleucus
(Smith, A, 1830)

Two subspecies
  • A. m. temminckii - Hartlaub, 1855
  • A. m. melanoleucus - (Smith, A, 1830)
coastal regions of South Africa, including the Cape Peninsula
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Henst's goshawk

Astur henstii
(Schlegel, 1873)
Madagascar Size:

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Eurasian goshawk

Astur gentilis
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Seven subspecies
  • A. g. albidus
  • A. g. arrigonii
  • A. g. buteoides
  • A. g. fujiyamae
  • A. g. gentilis
  • A. g. marginatus
  • A. g. schvedowi
western Europe (e.g. Great Britain, Spain, France)
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American goshawk

Astur atricapillus
(Wilson, A, 1812)

Three subspecies
  • A. a. apache
  • A. a. atricapillus
  • A. a. laingi
western United States, including Alaska, and western Canada.
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Meyer's goshawk


Astur meyerianus
(Sharpe, 1878)
Moluccas, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. Size:

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