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Lingiari has or used to have 70 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Christmas Island Goshawk.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Christmas Island Goshawk

Accipiter hiogaster natalis

Status: Endangered

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Accipiter hiogaster natalis is found across 1 electorates.

The Christmas Island Goshawk is a large hawk with a dark grey head and upperparts, mostly rufous underparts with fine and sometimes almost imperceptible white barring, yellow irides, yellow eyelids, greenish-yellow cere, yellow legs and feet and black talons. The sexes have similar plumages, although the throat of the male is white with grey spots whilst the throat of the female has a rufous-brown wash. The female is noticeably larger than the male. Immature and sub-adult goshawks can be readily distinguished from the adults by the predominantly brown upperparts and the thick brown and white barring on the underparts.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

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