Meyer's goshawk

Meyer's goshawk
John Gerrard Keulemans (1870)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Astur
Species:
A. meyerianus
Binomial name
Astur meyerianus
Sharpe, 1878

Meyer's goshawk (Astur meyerianus) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is found in the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. This species was formerly placed in the genus Accipiter.

The common name commemorates Adolf Bernard Meyer (1840–1911), a German anthropologist and ornithologist who collected in the Dutch East Indies.[2]

References

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  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Accipiter meyerianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22695689A93523669. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22695689A93523669.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 234.


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