How tiny is it?
How about this: it preys on hummingbirds! Below is a video from the FatBirder Channel on YouTube. It’s a bird called a Tiny Hawk (Accipiter superciliosus) and it is about 8 inches long. To give you an idea, a robin that you would see in your backyard in North America averages about ten inches. Cardinal average about 8.75 inches. To give you an even bigger idea, the hawk in the video below is eating a hummingbird called a white-necked jacobin!
Don’t worry, the video is not that gross and is very cool. Be sure to check out the other videos at FatBirders’s YouTube Channel.
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Hi,
Nature can be brutal sometimes…
Love the blog, keep up the good work! I was trying to find contact details but couldn’t so I posted.
We have just finished a new site for use by the birding community:
http://www.birdingnews.co.uk
We are contacting a limited number of people that we hope will let us know what they think about it before we take it out of beta. If you could let me know what you think that would be great.
Paul
Hey Sharon. What a cool little hawk. I’d sure like to see some genetic studies on this bird. The plumage alone makes it look superficially more like a member of the genus Falco rather than Accipiter. I suppose there is some resemblance to a sharp-shinned hawk as well but the horizontal barring on the front of the bird really screams Falco to me.
Kirk, many adult accips have horizontal barring – in our north American species, the adult coops and sharpies have rufous barring and goshawks have grey barring.