The sharp-shinned hawk 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
Accipiter striatus, Canet Road, San Luis Obispo 1
Typical rusty underside streaking of an immature individual.
Adult in flight, Goleta, California
With a chick (nominate group)
Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. They are very widely distributed and are found on all continents, except Antarctica.
Sharp-shinned hawk
…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…
Sharp-shinned hawk, a small member of the Accipitrinae subfamily
A Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), a member of the Buteo group
Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb holding a hawk in his darbar