Listen to the Sharp-shinned hawk
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About the Sharp-shinned hawk
The Sharp-shinned hawk is a bird in the family Accipitridae (order Accipitriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults have a wingspan of about 65 cm and weigh around 19 g.
What does the Sharp-shinned hawk sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as sharp-shinned hawk. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
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.
Related birds in the genus Accipiter
More from the family Accipitridae
Frequently asked questions
What does a Sharp-shinned hawk sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Sharp-shinned hawk on this page, including its sharp-shinned hawk. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the Sharp-shinned hawk endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Sharp-shinned hawk as “least concern”.
What family does the Sharp-shinned hawk belong to?
The Sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) belongs to the family Accipitridae in the order Accipitriformes.
Sources & credits
- Sharp-shinned Hawk by G. McGrane – Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q386569 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Sharp-shinned hawk – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by ALAN SCHMIERER from near Patagonia, AZ, USA – CC0 1.0