WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Accipiter gentilis | Northern Goshawk 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The range of the northern goshawk is circumpolar [11].  Its year-round
range in North America extends from northern Alaska and Canada south to
northern Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, and western Maryland [1,19].
Winter sightings of northern goshawk have been recorded in Missouri,
Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, and Florida [1].

Accipiter g. ssp. atricapillus occupies most of the above range.
Accipiter g. ssp. laingi occupies a limited range on Masset, Queen
Charlotte, and Vancover islands, British Columbia [1].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods

STATES : 



    
AK
    
AZ
	
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
FL
    
ID


	
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
ME
    
MA


    
MI
    
MN
    
MO
    
MT
	
NC
	
NE
    
NV


    
NH
	
NJ
    
NM
	
NY
	
ND
	
OH
    
OK


    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SD
	
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    


VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY
    






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    



BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest 
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    14  Northern pin oak
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    42  Bur oak
    43  Bear oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    46  Eastern redcedar
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    57  Yellow-poplar
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    62  Silver maple - American elm
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   221  Red alder
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   236  Bur oak
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   247  Jeffrey pine
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The northern goshawk is a forest dweller.  In the East, it usually
selects coniferous forests of pine (Pinus spp.), spruce (Picea spp.),
and/or fir (Abies spp.) with scattered patches of willow (Salix spp.),
alder (Alnus spp.), or other shrub species.  However, its habitat is not
limited to coniferous forests.  It also selects stands of birch (Betula
spp.), beech (Fagus spp.), and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in
deciduous forests [16].

In the West, the northern goshawk often dwells in ponderosa pine (Pinus
ponderosa), mixed-species, and spruce-fir forests.  Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii), white fir (Abies concolor), and grand fir (A.
grandis) frequently dominate the mixed-species forests.  Dominants in
spruce-fir forests include Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and
subalpine fir (A. lasiocarpa) [18].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Accipiter gentilis | Northern Goshawk