Queen Charlotte Goshawk

Queen Charlotte Goshawk Response Announced

Queen Charlotte Goshawk
Photo Credit: Rich Lowell, ADF&G

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on November 8, 2007, its Response to a Court-Ordered Remand on a petition to list the Queen Charlotte goshawk (Accipiter gentilis laingi) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The Queen Charlotte goshawk is a comparatively small, dark subspecies of the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) that nests and forages in coastal rainforests of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia.

• Press Release (pdf) (November 8, 2007)
• Federal Register (pdf)
• Fact Sheet (pdf)
• Questions & Answers (pdf)
• List of References (pdf)
• Status Review (pdf)
• Peer Review

Last updated: October 2, 2008