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title: "Krogulec zmienny"
description: "Accipiter striatus — Ptaki. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/sharp-shinned-hawk
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Krogulec zmienny

> Accipiter striatus — Ptaki. 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.

- Scientific name: *Accipiter striatus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 26579
- Wikidata: [Q386569](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q386569)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5097](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5097)

## Names

- en: Sharp-shinned Hawk
- de: Eckschwanzsperber
- es: Gavilán Pecho Canela
- fr: Épervier brun
- nl: Amerikaanse sperwer
- pt: Gavião-miúdo
- pl: Krogulec zmienny

## Countries with the most observations

US (16619), CA (4988), MX (1254), BR (316), AR (194), CO (124), EC (79), HN (72), UY (40), SV (35), GT (33), DO (28)

## Summary

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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp-shinned_hawk

## Photo

![Krogulec zmienny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sharp-shinned-hawk/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189304688

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sharp-shinned-hawk?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).