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Las, qu'i non sun sparvir, astur (Occitan pronunciation: [ˈlas ki nu ˈsu spaɾˈβiɾ asˈtuɾ]), which translates "Oh, to be a sparrow-hawk, a goshawk!", is the incipit of an anonymous Old Occitan cobla (single stanza poem). It was found in the margins of an eleventh-century manuscript in the British Library.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 landmark 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Falco nisus, [6] but moved to its present genus by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. [7] The current scientific name is derived from the Latin accipiter, meaning 'hawk', and nisus, the sparrowhawk. [8]
Sparrowhawk (sometimes sparrow hawk) may refer to several species of small hawk in the subfamily Accipitrinae. "Sparrow-hawk" or sparhawk originally referred to Accipiter nisus , now called "Eurasian" or "northern" sparrowhawk to distinguish it from other species.
The genus name is from Late Latin falco meaning a "falcon". The specific epithet sparverius is Medieval Latin for a "sparrowhawk". [8] Until the sixth edition of the AOU Checklist of North American Birds was published by the American Ornithologists' Union in 1983, the most commonly used name for the American kestrel was the sparrow hawk.
Shamanic teacher and spiritual healer Dr. Jonathan Dubois has studied hawk symbolism extensively. "The hawk is a magnificent bird, soaring up on the warm air currents and rising above to gain a ...
The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ταχυς (takhus) meaning "fast" with σπιζιας (spizias) meaning "hawk". [12] The species is closely related to the Besra (Tachyspiza virgata). [3] [2] For a time, it was thought the Japanese sparrowhawk was a migratory subspecies of the Besra, but that was disproved. [2]
The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ταχυς (takhus) meaning "fast" with σπιζιας (spizias) meaning "hawk". [8] The English "besra" is from the Hindi word Besrā for a female besra. [9] Ten subspecies are recognised: [7] T. v. affinis (Hodgson, 1836) – west Himalayas to central China and Indochina; T. v. fuscipectus (Mees, 1970 ...
The black sparrowhawk (Astur melanoleucus), sometimes known as the black goshawk or great sparrowhawk, is a bird of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae. It was formerly placed in the genus Accipiter .