Chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk

Chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aerospiza
Species:
A. castanilius
Binomial name
Aerospiza castanilius
(Bonaparte, 1853)
Subspecies[2]
  • A. c. castanilius - (Bonaparte, 1853)
  • A. c. beniensis - (Lönnberg, 1917)

The chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk (Aerospizar castanilius) is a small west African species of sparrowhawk in the family Accipitridae. This species was formerly placed in the genus Accipiter.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Accipiter castanilius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22695486A93511134. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22695486A93511134.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Accipiter castanilius". Wikispecies. Retrieved 2 January 2021.