Spur-hawk

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The Spur-hawk, blue hawk, blue merlin or gleg hawk (Accipiter nisus) is a smaw bird o prey in the faimily Accipitridae that includes mony ither diurnal Birds o prey sic as eagles an bizzarts. Adult male Spur-hawks haes bluish gray upperpairts an orange-strippit unnerpairts; females an bairns are broun abuin wi broun strips ablow. The male is up tae 25 % smawer nor the female - the lairgest differ atween the sexes in ony bird species.

Category:Fauconry
Category:True hawks
Category:Accipiter
Category:Birds o prey
Category:Birds o Europe
Category:Birds o Pakistan
Category:Birds o Turkey
Sparrowhawk, Eurasian
Category:Birds o Indie
Category:Ainimals descrived in 1758
Category:Birds o Ukraine