Brown Goshawk

Taxonomy

Order

Accipitriformes

Family

Accipitridae

Genus

Tachyspiza

eBird Code

brogos1

Subspecies (13)

• Tachyspiza fasciata buruensis

  Buru (Moluccas); possibly migrants from Australia

• Tachyspiza fasciata didimus

  northern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, eastward to Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland); winters northward to Lesser Sundas

• Tachyspiza fasciata dogwa

  Trans-Fly (south-central New Guinea) and Boigu and Saibai (northern Torres Strait islands, far northeastern Australia)

• Tachyspiza fasciata fasciata

  Australia (including Tasmania but not far north), Rennell and Bellona (southeastern Solomon Islands); non-breeding to Timor

• Tachyspiza fasciata hellmayri

  Lesser Sundas (Timor, Alor, Semau, and Rote)

• Tachyspiza fasciata natalis

  Christmas Island (east-central Indian Ocean)

• Tachyspiza fasciata polycrypta

  eastern New Guinea

• Tachyspiza fasciata rosseliana

  Rossel (Louisiade Archipelago, off southeastern New Guinea)

• Tachyspiza fasciata savu

  Sawu (Lesser Sundas)

• Tachyspiza fasciata stresemanni

  Tanahjampea, Kalao, Bonerate, Kalaotoa, and Madu (off southern Sulawesi), and Tukangbesi islands (off southeastern Sulawesi)

• Tachyspiza fasciata tjendanae

  Sumba (Lesser Sundas)

• Tachyspiza fasciata vigilax

  New Caledonia including Loyalty Islands, and Vanuatu

• Tachyspiza fasciata wallacii

  Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, and adjacent Lesser Sundas