Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Hawaks & Eagle

Accipiter nisus
Woodland, fields.
Palearctic from British Isles and Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to Anadyrland, Kamchatka Pen. and Kuril Is., and s to e Atlantic is. (Madeira, Canary), nw Africa (from Morocco to Tunisia), n Mediterranean region (incl. Sardinia and Corsica), Turkey, n,sw Iran, sw,c,se Russia to Transcaucasus and upper Volga R., and s to upper
Irtysh and upper Ob rivers, thence s to Turkestan, Pakistan (Baluchistan), n India (Himalayas, 1400-4500 m, from Kashmir e to Arunachal Pradesh and e Assam), s Tibet, c,ne China (nw Kansu, Tsinghai, w Szechwan, Hopeh, from Heilungkiang to Liaoning, and possibly n Yunnan), Korea
and Japan (c Honshu).
Winters s to n,ne Africa and s Asia.
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Accipiter badius
Open woodland, edge, savanna, towns, orchards, farmlands.
A. b. badius. Lowlands to 1500 m of s Asia in s Russia from s Ukraine
e to s Urals, Caucasus and Transcaucasus, n to Aral Sea, Kazakhstan, n Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, w,se China (sw Sinkiang, s Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, s Fukien and Hainan), Taiwan and se Asia. Northernmost populations migrate s, ranging to Sumatra. See A. butleri.
A. b. sphenurus. N,c African region in Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, e across s Mali, s Niger, s Chad and c,s Sudan to Ethiopia, Somalia and sw Arabia, and s to Cameroon, C. African Rep., n,ne Zaire, Uganda and n Tanzania.
A. b. polyzonoides. S Africa from sw,sc,ce Zaire, Rwanda and Tanzania (except n) s to ne Namibia, Botswana and ne S. Africa (Transvaal, Swaziland, n Natal).
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Accipiter brevipes
Open forest, orchards, farmlands.
Sc Eurasia in s Balkan states (n to Bulgaria and e Romania), Greece, w,c Turkey, w,sw Iran and from s Ukraine e to Volga R., Caucasus and Transcaucasus. Winters s to nc,ne Africa and Arabia.
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Accipiter nisus

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

fairly common

has bred: Iraq

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Accipiter badius

Shikra

Rare, poorly known

* no map

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Accipiter brevipes

Levant Sparrowhawk

Uncommon

has bred: Hungary, Albania

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Buteo swainsoni
Savanna, open pine-oak woodland, farmlands, grasslands.
W Nearctica in ec Alaska, Yukon and Mackenzie, and from c Alberta, c Saskatchewan, c Manitoba, w,s Minnesota and w Illinois s to s Calif., Baja Calif. (formerly), Sonora, Durango, Chihuahua, c,s Texas, c Arkansas and w Missouri. Winters in s C. and S. America (s to Argentina).
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Buteo buteo
Woodland, forest, moors, heath, towns, farmlands.
B. b. buteo. W Palearctic from British Isles, Norway and c,s Sweden s
to Azores and Cape Verde Is., nw Africa (Morocco), n Mediterranean region (incl. Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily and Crete), Turkey and Romania. Breeding recorded for Socotra Island (Siegfried and Frost. 1973. Ardea 61:123-127).
B. b. vulpinus. Nw,c Eurasia from n Sweden e across nw,c Russia to w,sw Siberia (Yenisei R., Altai, Tuva), and s to s Russia (n Caucasus, s Urals) and s S.S.R. (n,c Kirghiz steppes).
B. b. menetriesi. Mts. of sc Eurasia from s Crimea and Caucasus e to w Trancaucasus and n Iran.
B. b. japonicus. E,ec Asia in c,s Siberia (from Yenisei R. e across Yakutia to Sea of Okhotsk, and Mongolia, s Tibet, n,c China (from Kansu, Tsinghai and Hopeh s to w Szechwan), Japan (to Shikoku), and Izu, Daito and Bonin is., possibly Himalayas of n Pakistan and nw India (Kashmir).
Winters (buteo) s to w,nw Africa; (vulpinus) from s Europe s to s Africa and e to n India; (japonicus) from China and Japan s to Sri Lanka, Malaya and Taiwan.
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Buteo rufinus
The name Falco ferox has been misapplied to this species.
Arid plains, dry steppe, semi-desert.
Locally in s,sc Palearctic in n Africa from Morocco s to c Mauritania and Spanish Sahara and e to n Sudan, Egypt, incl. Sinai Pen.), Arabia (Yemen), and from Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and Near East e through se Russia (e of Volga R.), n to Kazakhstan, Turkestan, Kirghiz steppes and Middle East to sw Siberia (Altai), nw Mongolia, nw China (w Sinkiang), n Pakistan (s to Baluchistan) and n India (Kashmir, Garhwal).
Winters from ne (rarely to s) Africa e through s Eurasia to n India and s Tibet.
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