American Goshawk Range Map

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Migration

Resident to short-distance migrant. In some regions, younger birds disperse from northern breeding grounds while older birds remain behind. Some populations also make short winter movements to lower elevations. Larger-scale irruptions of American Goshawks moving from north to south occur approximately once every 10 years when snowshoe hare and grouse populations drop.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2023) Distribution map for American Goshawk Accipiter atricapillus. Modified accounting for taxonomic differences from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2021) Bird species distribution maps of the world. Version 2021.1

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