| The cuckoo, which resembles a sparrowhawk or a kestrel in flight, can be difficult to identify. |
| It is found already in Anglo-Saxon as a personal name, and the full sparrowhawk also exists. |
| It is closely related to the American sparrowhawk, which it resembles in size. |
| The discovery of goshawk and sparrowhawk bones suggest that some vicars enjoyed the aristocratic sport of hawking in their spare time. |
| The gamekeeper, for a private shooting estate in the valley, faces 19 charges under the Wildlife Act, including 10 of killing rare peregrine falcons, goshawk and sparrowhawk. |
| A sparrowhawk was calmly finishing off a blackbird six feet from my head. |
