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Accipiter striatus (Sharp-shinned Hawk)

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Infraspecies

Accipiter striatus chionogaster
Accipiter striatus erythronemius
Accipiter striatus fringilloides
Accipiter striatus madrensis
Accipiter striatus perobscurus (Queen Charlotte's sharp-shin hawk)
Accipiter striatus striatus (Hispaniolan sharp-shinned hawk)
Accipiter striatus suttoni (Sutton's sharp-shinned hawk)
Accipiter striatus velox (Northern sharp-shinned hawk)
Accipiter striatus venator
Accipiter striatus ventralis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.09695
EDGE Score: 1.95966
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  138 grams
Birth Weight [3]  19.3 grams
Female Weight [6]  174 grams
Male Weight [6]  103 grams
Weight Dimorphism [6]  68.9 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread
Wintering Habitat [2]  Generalist
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [4]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [4]  25 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  25 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  25 %
Forages - Understory [4]  25 %
Clutch Size [7]  5
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Fledging [1]  24 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  680,000
Incubation [5]  34 days
Mating Display [3]  Acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [5]  20 years
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [8]  131
Snout to Vent Length [1]  11 inches (29 cm)
Wing Span [9]  24 inches (.6 m)
Female Maturity [5]  1 year
Male Maturity [5]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Arenal Hill Nicaragua A1, A2
El Jaguar Nicaragua A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[11]
Strix nebulosa (Great Grey Owl)[11]

Providers

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Mueller, HC, DD Berger, and G. Allez. 1979. Age and sex differences in size of Sharp-shinned Hawks. Bird-Banding 50:34–44
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 9Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
♦ 10Making The Forest And Tundra Wildlife Connection
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 12Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 13Lasiurus borealis, Karl A. Shump Jr. and Ann U. Shump, Mammalian Species No. 183, pp. 1-6 (1982)
♦ 14Exploring the Denali Food Web, ParkWise, National Park Service
♦ 15Tamias merriami, Troy L. Best and Nancy J. Granai, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 476, pp. 1-9 (1994)
♦ 16Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 17International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0