Collared Sparrowhawk or Brown Goshawk?

Comparison of two species

For most of New Years Day 2022 in the Dayboro area it was incredibly wet (over 80mm fell in the morning) but at dusk the clouds cleared a little and I became aware of the shrill-call of an ‘Accipiter’ hawk from a nearby Hoop-Pine. My initial thought was that it was a Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) (from the higher-pitched repetitive sound), but when I started to photograph it thought that the tail-shape seemed incorrect and looked more like Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) Both are currently regular in the area, but BGOS far more obvious/abundant. I recorded hand-held video but the quality was very poor, so I extracted the audio, have uploaded a small section of the video and the entire audio. Apologies for the video-quality (I appreciate that it’s hard to watch) but would love your thoughts.

Note: The two images at the top of the post were taken locally (…and fairly recently) but are for content only and not the featured subject.

Audio, Brown Goshawk or Collared Sparrowhawk?

poor video

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