The Levant Sparrowhawk is a migratory hawk with gray upperparts and orange-barred underparts.
Adults have grayish upperparts and orange-barred underparts. Females are larger and darker than males, with a dark stripe down the center of the throat. Juveniles are brown above and streaked below.
It hunts birds in low, fast flight through woodland, scrub, and trees along waterways. It can migrate in large flocks, breeding mainly in southeastern Europe and wintering chiefly in the eastern Sahel south of the Sahara.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.