Birds of Turkey

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 249. Chapters: Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Northern Bald Ibis, List of birds of Turkey, Ruff, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Great Grey Shrike, Great Tit, Common Starling, Song Thrush, Common Chiffchaff, Osprey, Red-necked Grebe, Common Myna, Red Kite, Merlin (bird), Common Pheasant, Red Knot, Northern Pintail, Tawny Owl, Common Kestrel, Spanish Sparrow, Black Kite, Rock Dove, Eurasian Woodcock, Common Cuckoo, Arctic Tern, Tundra Swan, Eurasian Treecreeper, Eurasian Teal, Common Moorhen, Blue Tit, Marsh Tit, Northern Goshawk, Cinereous Vulture, Common Crane, Great Black-backed Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, Montagu's Harrier, Snow Bunting, Rough-legged Buzzard, Red-wattled Lapwing, Hooded Crow, Coal Tit, Lapland Longspur, Purple Swamphen, Eurasian Wren, White-throated Kingfisher, European Green Woodpecker, Great Cormorant, Short-eared Owl, Sedge Warbler, Short-toed Treecreeper, Ruddy Turnstone, Great Northern Loon, Western Marsh Harrier, Common Nightingale, Greater White-fronted Goose, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Brown Fish Owl, Grey Wagtail, Saker Falcon, Bohemian Waxwing, Slender-billed Curlew, Northern Shoveler, Greater Spotted Eagle, Black-winged Stilt, Manx Shearwater, Sandwich Tern, Long-tailed Tit, Whinchat, Marsh Warbler, Spotted Nutcracker, Barnacle Goose, Pied Kingfisher, Common Eider, Griffon Vulture, Hawfinch, Barbary Falcon, Yellow-throated Sparrow, Rook (bird), Common Buzzard, European Nightjar, Greylag Goose, Greenish Warbler, Common Swift, Eurasian Skylark, Gadwall, Black-crowned Night Heron, Terek Sandpiper, Sanderling, Grey Hypocolius, Redwing, Black Woodpecker. Excerpt: The Eurasian (or Northern) Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian Sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. The female is up to 25% larger than the male - one of the largest differences between the sexes in any bird species. Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian Sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 grams (18 oz) or more. The Eurasian Sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian Sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (2.0 ft) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days. The proportion of juveniles surviving their first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the commonest birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population and the concentrations in Eurasian Sparrowhawks were enough to...