Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Albanian | Gjeraqina e shkurtës |
| Arabic | باشق اوراسي |
| Armenian | Լորաճուռակ |
| Asturian | Gabilñn comñn |
| Azerbaijani | Kiçik qırğı |
| Basque | Gabirai arrunta |
| Bulgarian | Малък ястреб |
| Catalan | esparver comú |
| Chinese | 北雀鷹 |
| Chinese (SIM) | 雀鹰 |
| Croatian | kobac |
| Czech | krahujec obecný |
| Danish | Spurvehøg |
| Dutch | Sperwer |
| English | Eurasian Sparrowhawk |
| English (United States) | Eurasian Sparrowhawk |
| Faroese | Spurvaheykur |
| Finnish | varpushaukka |
| French | Épervier d'Europe |
| French (France) | Épervier d'Europe |
| Galician | Gabián común |
| German | Sperber |
| Greek | Ξεφτέρι |
| Hebrew | נץ מצוי |
| Hungarian | Karvaly |
| Icelandic | Sparrhaukur |
| Indonesian | Elang-alap erasia |
| Italian | Sparviere |
| Japanese | ハイタカ |
| Kannada | ಗುಬ್ಬಿ ಗಿಡುಗ |
| Korean | 새매 |
| Latvian | Zvirbuļu vanags |
| Lithuanian | Paukštvanagis |
| Malayalam | യൂറേഷ്യൻ പ്രാപ്പിടിയൻ |
| Mongolian | Морин харцага |
| Norwegian | spurvehauk |
| Persian | قرقی |
| Polish | krogulec |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Gavião |
| Portuguese (RAM) | Fura-bardos |
| Romanian | Uliu păsărar |
| Russian | Перепелятник |
| Serbian | Kobac |
| Slovak | jastrab krahulec |
| Slovenian | Skobec |
| Spanish | Gavilán Común |
| Spanish (Spain) | Gavilán común |
| Spanish (Uruguay) | Gavilán Chico Euroasiático |
| Swedish | sparvhök |
| Thai | เหยี่ยวนกกระจอกใหญ่ |
| Turkish | Atmaca |
| Ukrainian | Яструб малий |
Accipiter nisus (Linnaeus, 1758)
PROTONYM:
Falco Nisus
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1, p.92.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Europe; restricted to Sweden by Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica, ed. 2, p. 24.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- ACCIPITER
- nisus
- Nisus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus Scientific name definitions
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg, Jeffrey S. Marks, and Ernest Garcia
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated August 28, 2014
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated August 28, 2014
Originally Appeared in
Revision History
Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
Authors
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg, Jeffrey S. Marks, and Ernest Garcia
Recommended Citation
Meyburg, B.-U., J. S. Marks, and E. F. J. Garcia (2020). Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.eurspa1.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- August 28, 2014
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
Authors
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg, Jeffrey S. Marks, and Ernest Garcia
Revisors
Jeffrey S. Marks and Ernest Garcia
Recommended Citation
Meyburg, B.-U., J. S. Marks, and E. F. J. Garcia (2014). Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
