Accipiter striatus
Vieillot, 1808 · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Accipiter striatus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 840 339 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI103 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics29 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk, (Accipiter striatus venator), falcón de sierra or gavilán pecho rufo in Spanish, is an endemic subspecies of the North American sharp-shinned hawk, occurring only in Puerto Rico. Discovered in 1912 and described as a distinct sub-species, it has been placed on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species because of its rapidly dwindling population in Puerto Rico. It can be found in the Toro Negro State Forest.Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro. Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. [Publication/Issue: P-030] Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology14
Life cycle & reproduction9
Diet & foraging7
Habitat & environment4
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Accipiter striatus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Accipiter striatus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Accipiter striatus. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type1 840 354 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions45 of 83 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Seattle, US | 310 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 308 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 293 |
| Denver, US | 226 |
| Tacoma, US | 158 |
| München, DE | 149 |
| US | 136 |
| Saint John, CA | 103 |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record | 100 |
| Washington State University, Charles R. Conner Museumlocation not on record | 97 |
| Vancouver, CA | 88 |
| Mongolian Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 80 |
| Edmonton, CA | 79 |
| Zacatecas, MX | 66 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 60 |
| University of Nebraska State Museumlocation not on record | 58 |
| Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental Collegelocation not on record | 53 |
| CASlocation not on record | 52 |
| San Diego, US | 50 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 47 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 37 |
| South Kensington, GB | 36 |
| Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural Historylocation not on record | 33 |
| Ithaca, US | 31 |
| Philip L. Wright Zoological Museumlocation not on record | 30 |
| Albany, US | 28 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 25 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 24 |
| Chicago, US | 21 |
| Cambridge, US | 19 |
| ASNHClocation not on record | 15 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 14 |
| Iowa City, US | 14 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 14 |
| Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM)location not on record | 13 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 12 |
| 12 | |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 12 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 11 |
| Philadelphia, US | 10 |
| EL PASO, US | 10 |
| Los Angeles, US | 8 |
| Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 7 |
| University of California Los Angeleslocation not on record | 6 |
| Washington, US | 6 |
| Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record | 5 |
| Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record | 5 |
| University of Victorialocation not on record | 5 |
| Mexico City, MX | 4 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 4 |
| Geneva, CH | 3 |
| Berkeley, US | 3 |
| Morelia, MX | 3 |
| Buenos Aires, AR | 3 |
| Toronto, CA | 3 |
| Durango, MX | 3 |
| Helsinki, FI | 3 |
| Kristiansand, NO | 2 |
| Museo de Zoología, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapaslocation not on record | 2 |
| Indiana State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| CCBERlocation not on record | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| Universidad del Tolima (UT)location not on record | 2 |
| Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitanolocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 2 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 2 |
| Zografou, GR | 2 |
| Sistema de Colecciones Biológicas, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala location not on record | 2 |
| Schenectady, US | 1 |
| San Francisco de Campeche, MX | 1 |
| UTCBlocation not on record | 1 |
| Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja Californialocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipaslocation not on record | 1 |
| Ensenada, MX | 1 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 1 |
| St. Paul, US | 1 |
| Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| University of Wisconsin, Zoological Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Nicolás de los Garza, MX | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Accipiter striatus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.