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Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisus · Family Accipitridae
Accipiter nisus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,963,070
- Countries and territories with records
- 115
About this species
This species has 2,963,070 occurrence records from 115 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (22.1%), Denmark (12.8%), the United Kingdom (10%), France (8.7%) and the Netherlands (7.8%); together they account for 61.4% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.64% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Accipiter nisus combines the genus name Accipiter with the species epithet nisus. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Accipiter; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Accipiter striatus, Accipiter ovampensis and Accipiter rufiventris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 7.2 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.