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Broad Winged Hawk

Buteo platypterus

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42.0625, -104.184

Field Notes

Description:

"A small, stocky, forest-dwelling hawk of eastern deciduous forests, the Broad-winged Hawk is hard to see on its nesting grounds. It becomes more conspicuous on migration when it congregates into flocks and passes by hawk migration lookouts in the thousands."
- The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Broad-winged_Hawk/id

Habitat:

Small rural town where it does what it can to avoid the Common Grackle.

Species ID Suggestions

Broad-winged Hawk

Buteo platypterus

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PublishedMay 2, 2013

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