Rare visitors to the Alaska Peninsula, Narver did not document Sharp-shinned in his Chignik study of the early 1960’s, so this is perhaps the first documentation of the species in the Chignik River drainage. The specimen in this photograph arrived with passerines migrating south, was seen off and on for a couple of weeks, and then left. The mottled leaf-like pattern on the chest indicates a juvenile. Adults chests are more evenly ruddy.
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