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Japanese Sparrowhawk
[Accipiter gularis]
[Length 10.5 (Male) to 11.75 (Female) in. Wingspan xx in.]
The Japanese Sparrowhawk is a medium-sized Accipiter which breeds in southeastern Russia, North Korea, and most of Japan.
It spends the winter in southeastern China, southeastern Asia, and the southern islands of Japan.
This Japanese Sparrowhawk was photographed in winter as it hunted from a perch on telephone wires along a road on the island of Okinawa in Japan.
Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4 lens on Kodachrome 200 film.
(Date: February 1996)
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