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Red Goshawk

Red Goshawk
Status: vulnerable
 
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Erythrotriorchis
Species: radiatus
Binomial name
Erythrotriorchis radiatus

The Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus) is probably the rarest Australian bird of prey. It used to be regarded as a very large member of the goshawk subfamily, but it is now believed that the Red Goshawk is more closely related to several superficially dissimilar raptors, and that the goshawk resemblance is convergant.

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