Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus
ORDER: ACCIPITRIFORMES
FAMILY: ACCIPITRIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
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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.