Learn what an adult and juvenlie broad-winged hawk looks like and where to find them during breeding season and migration.

Broad-winged hawks have a more varied diet, mostly smaller prey items, appropriate for small feet. Their menu is topped with frogs, toads and small rodents. They eat insects, reptiles and small birds.

For the entire season, Tuesday’s additions added up to only 950 broad-wingeds — and just 1,353 hawks of all species. There has been a total of 9 peregrine falcons, 21 merlins, 86 kestrels, 59 ...

It harassed the broad-winged hawks for a while and then darted away. The name “peregrine” means wanderer (like the word “peregrinations” meaning meandering journey).

So the big winners this past fall were the broad-winged hawks, he said. The broad-winged hawk flights were exceptional this past fall with four days in a row of numbers surpassing 2,000 each day.

But the entire North American population of broad-winged hawks is about to begin leaving any day now for South America. They have to, so we’ve got to be ready when they all simultaneously fly.

Other buteos occur here; broad-winged hawks are mostly spring migrants and rough-legged hawks winter visitors. Swainson's and ferruginous hawks occur here and are worth watching for, but they are ...

Broad-winged hawks start peeling off when they reach maximum altitude. They soar expertly, and by combining swirling and soaring, they can cover 100 miles or more per day.

Broad-winged hawks will be returning to Western North Carolina from their wintering grounds in Central America and northern South America this week or the next, between April 1-15.

The Traverse City count also included a sighting of a broad-winged hawk, which Crane characterized in an email as “mind blowing, but well-documented.” ...

Long-time visitors to Hawk Mountain Sanctuary know that timing autumn raptor migration is difficult at best. There are more than a dozen raptor species that soar above the sanctuary’s Berks C… ...

Our sometimes-incredible fall hawk migration not long ago surged through Massachusetts like clockwork between September 12 and September 20 every year. In a span of 10 days, 90% of the ...