#1381 · 🐦 birds

Sharp-shinned Hawk

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Sperwer ·Accipiter striatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,328iNaturalist observations
weight 19.3 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
27,328 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 19 g.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1808 (218 years ago).