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sparrowhawk
		Video Details 3 Hit Votes Views: 1,597 Comments: 1 Favorited: 1   Add to Favorites  Report Content  Blog Video  Add to Channels  Suggest to Friends Description:  The sparrowhawk is a yellow eyed hawk with short, rounded wings and a long dark striped tail. The male sparrowhawk tercel (formerly musket) is about 30cm   more...long. The female (hawk) is bigger and measures about 38cm. The male sparrowhawk has a brownish back and wings, and has characteristic dark striped underparts. Another distinguishing feature of the female sparrowhawk is the white stripe behind each eye. Both the male and the female have a wingspan of approximately 66cm. The sparrowhawk has yellow legs and strong talons in which to carry prey. Its hooked beak enables the sparrowhawk to tear prey into pieces small enough to swallow. As its name suggests the sparrowhawk preys mostly on small birds. It also eats small mammals and insects. Sparrowhawks, like all birds of prey, create a small parcel of those parts of their prey, such as fur, bones and feathers, which they find to be indigestible. This is called a pellet. They regurgitate these and they may be found on the ground near their eating place. The nest of the sparrowhawk is made of twigs and sticks and is lined with dead leaves. The nest is bulky and is usually built 10–12 metres above the ground in a tree. A clutch of four to six eggs is laid which are greenish-white with brown streaks. Young sparrowhawks have a voracious appetite, and need to eat two to three ‘sparrow-sized’ birds each day.   less Added:  Jan 14, 09   By: huddersfieldBadgers Subscribers:  2 Tags:  eurasion sparrowhawk   accipiter   Category:  Pets & Animals URL:  Embed:     Options   Add thumbnail at the end of your video   Enable Community Links on your player     Enable autoplay on your video Width:  New Code:

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