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Sharp-shinned Hawk

Accipiter striatus

Classification

Class
Aves

The sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) or northern sharp-shinned hawk, colloquially often nicknamed sharpie, 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 the 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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 4,981Peru · 668France · 1