Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk

The New Guinea version of Australia’s elusive Red Goshawk, this species is supposedly widespread in appropriate habitat but incredibly difficult to find. There were excellent photographs of a single Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk taken in 2014 but no records that we know of since then (and very few before).

Chestnut-shouldered Goshawk is currently considered Near Threatened.

The last documented record, and perhaps only photographs of the species, were a series of pictures taken by Szabolcs Kókay and Thane Pratt in March 2014 near Isurava on the Kokoda Track in southeastern Papua New Guinea.