Erythrotriorchis

Erythrotriorchis is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

Erythrotriorchis
A male Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus) in flight
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Accipitrinae
Genus:	Erythrotriorchis Sharpe, 1875
Type species
Falco radiatus[1] Latham, 1801

Species

It contains the following species:^[2]

Genus Erythrotriorchis – Sharpe, 1875 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Chestnut-shouldered goshawk	Erythrotriorchis buergersi (Reichenow, 1914)	New Guinea.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	DD
Red goshawk	Erythrotriorchis radiatus (Latham, 1801)	Far North Queensland, Kakadu Savanna and the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, and Mornington Sanctuary in the Kimberley region of Western Australia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EN

Etymology

"Erythro-" is from a Greek word for "red", and "triorchis" meant a kind of hawk thought to have three testicles. For further details see Eutriorchis.

Taxonomy

Latham described the red goshawk as Falco radiatus in 1801. Sharpe defined^[3] Erythrotriorchis in 1875 as a new monotypic genus for Falco radiatus.

Peters also included E. doriae in the genus,^[4] though Doria's goshawk is now classified separately as Megatriorchis doriae.