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Sparrowhawk


Sparrowhawk or variants may refer to:

Birds


Sparrowhawk (sometimes '''Sparrow Hawk''') may refer to several species of small hawk in the genus ''Accipiter''. These include:
- Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk, ''A. castanilius''
- Collared Sparrowhawk, ''A. cirrocephalus''
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk, ''A. nisus''
- Imitator Sparrowhawk, ''A. imitator''
- Indian Sparrowhawk, Resident of Deosai National Park
- Japanese Sparrowhawk, ''A. gularis''
- Levant Sparrowhawk, ''A. brevipes''
- Little Sparrowhawk, ''A. minullus''
- Madagascar Sparrowhawk, ''A. madagascariensis''
- New Britain Sparrowhawk, ''A. brachyurus''
- Nicobar Sparrowhawk, ''A. butleri''
- Ovampo Sparrowhawk, ''A. ovampensis''
- Red-thighed Sparrowhawk, ''A. erythropus''
- Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, ''A. rufiventris''
- Rufous-necked Sparrowhawk, ''A. erythrauchen''
- Slaty-mantled Sparrowhawk, ''A. luteoschistaceus''
- Small Sparrowhawk, ''A. nanus''
- Vinous-breasted Sparrowhawk, ''A. rhodogaster''
- Frances's Sparrowhawk, ''Accipiter francesii'', also known as Frances' Goshawk
    - Anjouan Island Sparrowhawk, or Ndzuwani Goshawk ''Accipiter francesii pusillus'', an extremely rare, possibly extinct, subspecies of Frances's Sparrowhawk
- American Kestrel, ''Falco sparverius'', often incorrectly called a 'Sparrowhawk' or 'Sparrow Hawk'
- Nankeen Kestrel, ''Falco cenchroides'', may be called a 'Sparrowhawk' on Norfolk Island

Ships


- HMS Sparrowhawk|HMS ''Sparrowhawk'', the name of several ships belonging to the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom

Aircraft


- Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk, a light biplane fighter aircraft, formerly carried by the United States Navy airships USS ''Akron'' and USS ''Macon''
- Soko J-20 Kraguj (English: Soko J-20 Sparrowhawk), Yugoslavian light ground-attack and training aircraft
- Windward Performance SparrowHawk (sailplane)|SparrowHawk high-performance ultralight sailplane
- ''Sparrowhawk'', the call sign given to civilian aircraft carrying members of the British Royal Family or which has 'royal flight' status.

Other uses


- Operation Epervier (English: Operation Sparrowhawk) (1986–present), codename for the French military presence in Chad
- Sparrowhawk Media, British media company
- ''Sparrowhawk'', a series of novels by Edward Cline
- The common name of Ged (Earthsea), main protagonist in the ''Earthsea'' novels by Ursula Le Guin
- In Starfleet Battles and Starfleet Command, this was a class of Romulan light cruiser.

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