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Species
sharp-shinned hawk
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderFalconiformes
- FamilyAccipitridae
Полосатый ястреб (лат. Accipiter striatus) — вид птиц из семейства ястребов (Accipitridae). Официально признано 9 подвидов.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Accipiter
- Mass
- 19.3
- Image
- Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned hawk perched on tree limb.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Accipiter striatus
- Commons category
- Accipiter striatus
- Commons gallery
- Accipiter striatus
- wingspan
- 55
- taxon range
- Itaituba
- taxon common name
- gavião-miúdo
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Encyclopedic overview
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. ventralis), and rufous-thighed hawk (A. erythronemius). The American Ornithological Society and some other checklists keep all four species conspecific. A recent genetic study additionally recommended splitting the three Caribbean island populations as three additional separate species, though this has not yet been adopted by any of the ornithological authorities.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sharp-shinned Hawk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.