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.

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.

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.

Red-tailed hawks, our most common and widespread species, are the archetypal representatives of the broad-winged, soaring hawks of the genus Buteo.

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.

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 ...

Look Rock fire tower on the Foothills Parkway provides a sweeping 360-degree panoramic view of the stunning Smoky Mountain landscape from which to watch these hawks and other species in migration ...

To determine if immature hawks were sighted farther north than adults, the research team looked at 2,164 broad-winged hawk sightings with age data and 25,797 sightings without age data.