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Broad Winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus
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.
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