Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)

Other Names (World)
Sharp-shinned Hawk, Sharpshin, Sharpie, Little Blue Darter

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
25 - 36 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1807

Habitat
Boreal coniferous forests, temperate deciduous woodland, tropical and subtropical cloud forest, gallery forest and semi-open savanna woodland. From sea-level - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B) (NB) (P), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Pierre and Miquelon (NB) (P), Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, USA (B) (NB) (P), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British).

Vagrant to Bermuda, Jamaica, Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 1,100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (40)...)

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) [XC71967]
by Ian Cruickshank from Los Manzanos, Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico (call)

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) [XC824361]
by Paul Driver from Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality (near Duparquet), Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, Quebec, Canada (call)

Subspecies
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus), White-breasted Hawk (Accipiter chionogaster), Plain-breasted Hawk (Accipiter ventralis) and Rufous-thighed Hawk (Accipiter erythronemius) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Accipiter striatus following SACC (2005).

Forms superspecies with White-breasted Hawk (Accipiter chionogaster), Plain-breasted Hawk (Accipiter ventralis) and Rufous-thighed Hawk (Accipiter erythronemius), all of which have traditionally been included within present species, but differ on morphology, ecology and probably behaviour. Also close to Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and associated species.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

perobscurus Snyder, 1938 - Queen Charlotte Is; possibly also mainland coast of British Columbia.
velox (Wilson, A, 1812) - Alaska and Canada south to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Alabama (USA). Winters south to Panama.
suttoni van Rossem, 1939 - Extreme southern New Mexico (USA) southern locally to Veracruz (Mexico).
madrensis Storer, 1952 - Guerrero and perhaps western Oaxaca (southern Mexico).
striatus Vieillot, 1807 - Hispaniola, in both Haiti and Dominican Republic.
fringilloides Vigors, 1827 - Cuba.
venator Wetmore, 1914 - Puerto Rico.
chionogaster (Kaup, 1852) - Southern Mexico to Nicaragua.
ventralis Sclater, PL, 1866 - Venezuela to western Bolivia.
erythronemius (Kaup, 1850) - South-eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil to Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) - 10 files

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