Little sparrowhawk

Little sparrowhawk
At Phinda Game Reserve, South Africa, showing ventral and dorsal plumage
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Tachyspiza
Species:
T. minulla
Binomial name
Tachyspiza minulla
(Daudin, 1800)
Subspecies
  • T. m. tropicalis - (Reichenow, 1898)
  • T. m. minullus - (Daudin, 1800)
Synonyms[2]
  • Accipiter buttikoferi Sharpe 1888
  • Falco minullus Daudin, 1800
Juvenile little sparrowhawk - Onrus, Hermanus, South Africa

The little sparrowhawk (Tachyspiza minulla) is a species of Afrotropical bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It was formerly placed in the genus Accipiter. It is the smallest member of the genus Tachyspiza and forms a superspecies with the red-thighed sparrowhawk (Tachyspiza erythropus).

  1. ^ BirdLife International. (2016). "Accipiter minullus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22695581A93517052. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22695581A93517052.en. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Repository "Index to Organism Names"". GBIF and EOL. Retrieved 24 October 2016.