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Sparrowhawk with wood pigeon prey

Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus

Credit:© Natural England/Andy Neale

22 October 2017

Credit: Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan

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Comments: Taken from Pakistan by Imran Shah and released under CC-BY-SA-2.0 license

 

Sparrow hawk (Accipiter nisus), one of the hawks of Israel, so common that it might be regarded, in reference to the Bible, as the hawk par excellence.

Verses:

  • Leviticus 11:16
  • Deuteronomy 14:15
  • Job 39:26
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​s/sparrow-hawk.html. 2024.
 
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