Meyer's goshawk
| Meyer's goshawk | |
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| John Gerrard Keulemans (1870) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Accipiter |
| Species: | A. meyerianus
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| Binomial name | |
| Accipiter meyerianus (Sharpe, 1878)
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Meyer's goshawk (Accipiter meyerianus) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is found in the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
The common name commemorates Adolf Bernard Meyer (1840–1911), a German anthropologist and ornithologist who collected in the Dutch East Indies.[2]
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter meyerianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 234.
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Accipiter
- Birds of the Maluku Islands
- Birds of New Guinea
- Birds of the Bismarck Archipelago
- Birds of the Solomon Islands
- Birds described in 1878
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