Sharp shinned hawk

Well Sharp Shinned hawks are most commonly confused with Coopers Hawk. Coopers hawk have long tails and are a bit bigger then sharpies.
Coopers are 14-20' and Sharpies are 10-14'. Coopers have longer, rounded tails and Sharpies have short, squared off tails.
The tail on this one looks long and the ends of the tail feathers are more rounded, so I'll put an ID suggestion for a Cooper.

ConnorSheWing: Do you have another ID suggestion? It's hard to tell from the photo, but he is only about 10 inches tall. I would love to hear any suggestions you might have.

You guys sure this is a Sharpie? That tail seems offley long to me.

Nice spotting, Icrowe! Welcome to the community! I'd love you to add this and any future Raptor spottings to the mission Raptors of North America: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8627...

Thanks, Liam. I wasn't sure if I had identified the bird correctly. Thanks for providing the scientific name. I added it to the spotting information.

Please add binomial name: Accipiter striatus

Welcome to Project Noah! :)

Thanks for all of the great suggestions! I will definitely check them out. I just found Project Noah today and I think its great! Have a good day!

Interesting spotting lcrowe ,congrats,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah
I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-)
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