Identification: During the white phase the plummage is completely white. In the grey phase the upper parts and outer web of flight feathers are light to mid blue-grey. The inner web of the flight feathers are light gresh to white with slight barring. The underparts are white with the neck, upper breast and sides of belly slightly barred lightly grey-brown.

Call/Song: Loud ku-wit, swee-swit or soft, repeated queet are the grey goshawk's musical cries. A repeated weep-weep is used as a contact call.
       Sound: D. Stewart -used with permission

Found from Derby (Western Australia) across the northern coastline and south down to Tasmania and into South Australia.

Habitat:Usually found in heavily timbered country.

Feeding: Takes small bird, mammals, snakes and other reptiles, grasshoppers, cicadas and other insects as prey.

Breeding/Nesting:  Breeds from July through to December. The white and the grey goshawks commonly interbreed. Constructs a nest of sticks lined with twigs and green leaves.

Movement:  This bird is a bold and persistent hunter. It will fly swiftly and directly in pursuit of its food, suddenly striking taking its prey by suprise. 

Other Common Names: White goshawk, New Holland goshawk,variable goshawk.

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Queensland Museum (1995) Wildlife of Greater Brisbane, Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Reader's Digest Services (1979) Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds, Surry Hills, NSW.