Species profile—Circus approximans (swamp harrier)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Accipitridae (kites, goshawks, eagles and harriers) → Circus approximans (swamp harrier)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Accipitridae (kites, goshawks, eagles and harriers)
- Scientific name
- Circus approximans Peale, 1848
- Common name
- swamp harrier
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1722
- Alternate name(s)
- marsh harrier
swamp hawk - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1722
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.