What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Sharp-shinned Hawk been recorded?

Accipiter striatus occurrence evidence comes from 149,938 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1858 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeAccipiter

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

149,938 records across 21 countries and territories, 1858–2026.

Accipiter striatus · GBIF taxon key 9740253

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: October.

4 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18582026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Sharp-shinned Hawk has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Sharp-shinned Hawk. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 127,090
Canada 21,884
Mexico 599
Colombia 271
Brazil 19
Argentina 13
Honduras 12
Ecuador 10
Peru 9
Bolivia 7
El Salvador 6
Costa Rica 3
Paraguay 3
Dominican Republic 2
Guatemala 2
Guyana 2
Cuba 1
Puerto Rico 1
Uruguay 1
Venezuela 1
ZZ 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.