Christmas goshawk

Christmas goshawk
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Tachyspiza
Species:
Subspecies:
T. f. natalis
Trinomial name
Tachyspiza fasciata natalis
(Lister, 1889)
Synonyms
  • Accipiter natalis
  • Accipiter novaehollandiae natalis
  • Accipiter hiogaster natalis
  • Accipiter fasciatus natalis

The Christmas goshawk (Tachyspiza fasciata natalis) or Christmas Island goshawk is a bird of prey in the goshawk and sparrowhawk family Accipitridae. It is a threatened endemic of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the eastern Indian Ocean.