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Upon searching for the cause of a dull thump against one of our windows we discovered this sparrow hawk, just three yards from our window on our terrace.

“A bird that sits more exposed will run a higher risk of being captured by a sparrow hawk,” Dr. Moller said.

He cited sparrow hawk nests and badgers as evidence that Sitka forests foster wildlife.

Some may have been killed by birds of prey such as sparrow hawks, Carstens says, but others could have been victims of poachers.

Hawks and owls have been found in convulsions — great horned owls, screech owls, red-shouldered hawks, sparrow hawks, marsh hawks.