Buteo platypterus ORDER: ACCIPITRIFORMES FAMILY: ACCIPITRIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
© Mike Danzenbaker
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.
Call a thin, high whistled "kee-eee."