Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Sharp-shinned Hawk FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Accipiter striatus chionogaster REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Winter visitor - migrant. 13 Winter visitor - migrant. 3 Insufficient information, uncertain 12 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 12 PIF-2 Pri. 7, most winter n. Mexico 11 PIF Trend: Insufficient Data 11 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 9 District Reference Cayo 7 Orange Walk 6 Toledo 10 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Chiquibul Forest Reserve Sighting 7 Columbia River Forest Reserve 10 Gallon Jug Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Gallon Jug Dry season 6 Chiquibul National Park 7 Private land, see comments Captured or Mist net Dry season 8 Hydrologic Association Reference Macal River 7 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 8 201-400 m 8 601-800 m 10 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 10' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 8 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 8 Subtropical moist 8 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 10 General Distribution Comments 13* Accidental northern semideciduous moist forest. Accidental coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 7* Guacamallo 3* Winter visitor, fewer than five records northern hardwood forests and coastal savannas. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 5 Miller, B. 1994. Summary of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bird Banding Laboratory DATA. in prep. 6 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 7 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 8 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 9 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 10 Jones, L., D. Gardner. 1997. Little Quartz Ridge Rapid Assessment Program. Executive Summary: Birds. Draft report for FPMP 11 Working Group, Partners in Flight. 1992. Needs Assessment: Monitoring Migratory Birds. Report for Neotropical Migratory Bird Program 12 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 13 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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