Sharp-shinned Hawk Images, Facts and Information:<\/h2>\n
Accipiter striatus<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Sharp-shinned Hawks are small, long-legged, long-tailed, short-winged hawks with small heads. Adult Sharp-shinned Hawks have blue-gray upperparts, rufous barred chests, and dark red eyes.\u00a0 Females are generally larger than males.<\/li>\n
- Some Sharp-shinned Hawks are migratory while others are year round residents in parts of their range.<\/li>\n
- Sharp-shinned Hawks can be found in Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.<\/li>\n
- Sharp-shinned Hawks are generally found in dense woods except during migration and winter.<\/li>\n
- Sharp-shinned Hawks primarily eat small birds but will also prey on small mammals, insects and reptiles.<\/li>\n
- Sharp-shinned Hawks lay 4 to 5 eggs which hatch in 34 to 35 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.<\/li>\n
- Nick names for Sharp-shinned Hawks include “Sharpie” and “Sharpy”.<\/li>\n
- A group of hawks can be called a \u201ctower\u201d, \u201cknot\u201d, \u201cspiraling\u201d, \u201cstream\u201d or \u201ckettle\u201d of hawks.<\/li>\n
- Sharp-shinned Hawks can live to be more than 12 years of age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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