Almost identical in size, a young male sharp-shinned hawk and an adult blue jay have very little to fear from one another. That does not change the attitude of the jays, however. A sharp-shinned ...

The sharp-shinned hawk, commonly called a sharpie ... by foliage which also happens to be a speed machine in flight? Adult sharpies are grayish on the upper body with rust-colored horizontal ...

Adult: blue-gray upperparts ... and has relatively shorter tail and longer wings. Sharp-shinned hawk is smaller and has a square tail. Widespread through United States and southern Canada ...

A sharp-shinned hawk will likely be the culprit. This hawk will often fly up and land in a nearby tree, on top of a fencepost or some other lofty perch and watch small birds at a feeder ...

The “blue flash” will be either a sharp-shinned or a Cooper's hawk, the infamous "chicken hawks" of rural lore that feed primarily on other birds. Because of their blue-gray backs and ...

The accipiter is a genus of the hawk family comprised of three species. The smallest of our three accipiters is the sharp-shinned hawk. There are general characteristics of the accipiter that ...

This is a Sharp-shinned Hawk, a bird that nests in the northern half of our state, and throughout Canada. It's the smallest member of the Accipiter family -- Sharp-shinned, Cooper's, and Goshawk ...

A sharp-shinned hawk, which was banded earlier in the day, is released Sept. 25, 2022, by a staff member at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth, Minnesota.