Broad-winged hawk / Breitflügelbussard (Buteo platypterus)

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Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Hawks (Buteo); Subfamily Buteoninae (Buteoninae); Family Accipitridae (Accipitridae)
General: The broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus) is a medium-sized hawk of the genus Buteo. During the summer, some subspecies are distributed over eastern North America, as far west as British Columbia and Texas; they then migrate south to winter in the Neotropics from Mexico south to southern Brazil.^[2] Other subspecies are all-year residents on Caribbean islands.^[3] As in most raptors, females are slightly larger than males. Broad-winged hawks' wings are relatively short and broad with a tapered, somewhat pointed appearance. The two types of coloration are a dark morph with fewer white areas and a light morph that is more pale overall. Although the broad-winged hawk's numbers are relatively stable, populations are declining in some parts of its breeding range because of forest fragmentation. [more]