MIGRANT LEVANT SPARROWHAWKS (ACCIPITER-BREVIPES) AT ELAT, ISRAEL - MEASUREMENTS AND TIMING

We banded 218 migrating Levant Sparrowhawks (Accipiter brevipes) in th e course of a raptor banding project in flat, Israel during the spring of 1996. To our knowledge, this is the largest sample examined in a s ingle season. We caught 73 adult males and 55 females, and 48 second-y ear (SY) males and 42 SY females. On average, male morphometric measur ements were 9% smaller than those of females. Only 7% of all Levant Sp arrowhawks caught showed obvious molt, 19% had obvious ectoparasites a nd none had asphalt contamination.