Northern Goshawk
The Northern Goshawk, Albidus Goshawk, and White-waisted hawk or the Ice Hawk (Accipiter gentilis albidus), is a race of goshawk found in north-eastern Siberia and Kamchatka. Many birds of this race travel south for the winter to Transbaikalia, Northern Mongolia and Ussuriland. This race continues the trend for goshawks to grow mildly larger eastbound in Eurasia and may be the largest known race based on the midpoint of known measurements of this race, although limited sample sizes of measured goshawks show they broadly overlap in size with *A. g. buteoides* and large-bodied populations of *A. g. gentilis*. The wing chord can range from 316 to 346 mm (12.4 to 13.6 in) in males and from 370 to 388 mm (14.6 to 15.3 in) in females. Known males have scaled from 894 to 1,200 g (1.971 to 2.646 lb) while a small sample of females weighed have had a body mass between 1,300 and 1,750 g (2.87 and 3.86 lb).[1][2] This is easily the palest race of northern goshawk. Many birds are pale grey above with much white about the head and very sparse barring below. However, about half of the goshawks of this race are more or less pure white, with at most only a few remnants of pale caramel flecking about the back or faint brownish markings elsewhere.[2][3][4]
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