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    (c) Troy B, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Bob Reiter, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) naturecandids, all rights reserved

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    (c) Leslie S, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Steven McGrath, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) jim22lawrence, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Sharp-shinned Hawk

Accipiter striatus

Worldwide
27,620 observations
Group
Birds
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

The sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) is a small hawk, with males being the smallest hawks in the United States and Canada, but with the species averaging larger than some Neotropical species, such as tiny hawk. The taxonomy is far from resolved, with some authorities considering the southern taxa to represent three separate species: white-breasted hawk (A. chionogaster), plain-breasted hawk (A. ventralis), and rufous-thighed hawk (A. erythronemius). The American Ornithological Society keeps all four species conspecific.

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