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Males tend to take tits, finches, sparrows and buntings ; females often take thrushes and starlings.

Larger quarry ( such as doves and magpies ) may not die immediately but succumb during feather plucking and eating.

More than 120 bird species have been recorded as prey and individual Eurasian Sparrowhawks may specialise in certain prey.

The birds taken are usually adults or fledglings, though chicks in the nest and carrion are sometimes eaten.

Small mammals, including bats, are sometimes caught but insects are eaten only very rarely.