Goshawk
- Persian name tarlan
- English name Goshawk
- Scientific name Accipiter gentilis
- Family Accipitridae
- Morphology Body length:60 cm. females are significantly larger than males, males are stronger and have longer wings.
- Ethology Unlike other relatives who only specialize in hunting small birds, it has a more varieddiet, its preys include small and large birds, and even other hunting birds, and small mammals like rodents. Sometimes it nests on remains of old nests of other birds.