Accipiter gentilis

Norbert Kenntner, Berlin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- northern goshawkPBDB
- Sits inside
- AccipiterPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Mass
- 67 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
15 occurrences of Accipiter gentilis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
15 occurrences- Pleistocene93%
- Holocene7%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Accipiter gentilis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Accipiter gentilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
423 taxa- Falco tinnunculus9 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus9 sites
- Columba palumbus8 sites
- Turdus8 sites
- Corvus monedula7 sites
- Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax7 sites
- Scolopax rusticola7 sites
- Columba6 sites
- Columba oenas6 sites
- Corvus6 sites
- Tyto alba6 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos5 sites
- Aquila chrysaetos5 sites
- Athene cretensis5 sites
- Buteo buteo5 sites
- Columba livia5 sites
- Erithacus rubecula5 sites
- Falco eleonorae5 sites
- Fringilla5 sites
- Accipiter nisus4 sites
- Aegolius funereus4 sites
- Canis lupus4 sites
- Chloris chloris4 sites
- Corvus corax4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Accipiter gentilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
11 references- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece5
- Late Pleistocene fossil birds from Buso Doppio del Broion Cave (North-Eastern Italy): implications for palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate1
- The bird assemblage from the Middle Palaeolithic level I of Arbreda Cave: A taphonomic story1
- Faunal remains from Alcáçova de Santarém, Portugal1
- New data of fossil birds from El Hierro (Canary Islands): probable causes of extinctions and some biogeographical considerations1
- The Middle Pleistocene avifauna of Spinagallo Cave (Sicily, Italy): preliminary report1
- Castiglione 3, un nouveau remplissage fosilifere d'age Pleistocene moyen dans le karst de la region d'Oletta (Haute-Corse)1
- The late Pleistocene avifauna of Crystal Ball Cave, Utah1
- The late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) avifauna of Little Box Elder Cave, Wyoming1
- A comparison of avian assemblages from individual pits at Rancho La Brea, California1
- La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco1
Each of the 15 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Accipiter gentilis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Norbert Kenntner, Berlin
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAccipiter through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)