The genus Astur was introduced in 1799 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède.[1] The type species was later designated by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Vigors as Falco palumbarius Linnaeus, 1758, now considered as a junior synonym of Falco gentilis Linnaeus, 1758, the Eurasian goshawk.[2][3] The name is from Latin astur, asturis meaning "hawk".[4]
Species now placed in this genus were formerly assigned to the genus Accipiter. Molecular phylogenetic studies found that Accipiter was polyphyletic and in the subsequent rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the genus Astur was resurrected in 2024 to contain nine species that were previously placed in Accipiter.[5][6][7]
The genus contains nine species:[7]
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Genus Astur – Lacépède, 1799 – nine species
| Common name |
Scientific name and subspecies |
Range |
Size and ecology |
IUCN status and estimated population |
| Cooper's hawk
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Astur cooperii
(Bonaparte, 1828) |
southern Canada to Mexico
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LC
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| Gundlach's hawk
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Astur gundlachi
(Lawrence, 1860)
- A. g. gundlachi - (Lawrence, 1860)
- A. g. wileyi - (Wotzkow, 1991)
|
Cuba.
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EN
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| Bicolored hawk
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Astur bicolor
(, )
- A. b. bicolor - (Vieillot, 1817)
- A. b. fidens - (Bangs & Noble, 1918)
- A. b. guttifer - (Hellmayr, 1917)
- A. b. pileatus - (Temminck, 1823)
|
Mexico to west Ecuador, the Guianas to Colombia, south to east Peru, through Amazonian Brazil to Paraguay, north-northwestern Argentina,north of Uruguay,Bolivia and to Chile
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LC
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| Chilean hawk
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Astur chilensis
(Philippi & Landbeck, 1864) |
central Chile and western Argentina south to Tierra del Fuego,
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| Black sparrowhawk
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Astur melanoleucus
(Smith, A, 1830)
- A. m. temminckii - Hartlaub, 1855
- A. m. melanoleucus - (Smith, A, 1830)
|
coastal regions of South Africa, including the Cape Peninsula
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LC
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| Henst's goshawk
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Astur henstii
(Schlegel, 1873) |
Madagascar
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VU
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| Eurasian goshawk
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Astur gentilis
(Linnaeus, 1758)
- A. g. albidus
- A. g. arrigonii
- A. g. buteoides
- A. g. fujiyamae
- A. g. gentilis
- A. g. marginatus
- A. g. schvedowi
|
western Europe (e.g. Great Britain, Spain, France)
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LC
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| American goshawk
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Astur atricapillus
(Wilson, A, 1812)
- A. a. apache
- A. a. atricapillus
- A. a. laingi
|
western United States, including Alaska, and western Canada.
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LC
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| Meyer's goshawk
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Astur meyerianus
(Sharpe, 1878) |
Moluccas, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. |
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