Accipitridae

A pale smoke-grey falcon, crown dark-grey, dark streak down through eye, cere, eyering and legs orange-yellow, eye dark-brown. Immature: darker, heavily mottled brownish grey above, cheek-mark darker, underparts more heavily streaked. Cere, eyering and legs bluish. Female larger than male.

Diurnal, Nests are poorly defended, usually uses old nests of another species.

Woodland Grassland Shrubland, Open habitats: semi-deserts, grassy inland plains, timbered watercourses, pastoral lands.

July to November, 2-4 eggs, pink buff spotted red. Incubation 32-35 days by female mainly, young fledge 42-45 days.Young may stay for another 6 mths.

Kakadu National Park

Carnivore, birds; small mammals; reptiles; insects.