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A small, stocky raptor with black-and-white bands on the tail, the Broad-winged Hawk is a bird of the forest interior and can be hard to see during the nesting season. Its call is a piercing, two-parted whistle.
Adults are solid brown above, barred reddish-brown below with bold black-and-white tail bands. Immatures similar, but with blotchier markings below and thin, diffuse tail bands. Distinctive shape in flight: note the short tail, straight leading edge of wing, and bulging secondaries in flight.
W. 34 (86 cm). Chunky and compact, soars with wings held flat and tapering to a point. Adult is only eastern buteo with broad tail-bands, has dark back, reddish chest. Juvenile has narrow tail-bands (last one thicker), dark blotches on side of white chest.
A small, stocky raptor with black-and-white bands on the tail, the Broad-winged Hawk is a bird of the forest interior and can be hard to see during the nesting season. Its call is a piercing, two-parted whistle.
4 Μαρ 2020 · Juvenile (Juvenile plumage) light morph similar to adult but underparts white with longitudinal brown streaks on breast, heavier streaking on sides and belly (overall amount of ventral streaking varies from very little to heavy; Friedmann 1950a , Wheeler and Clark 1995 ), and with more white throughout on upperparts.
The juvenile is dark with variable light streaking on body and wing coverts. Light-morph adult: Head, back, and wings are brown, throat is white, wing tips dark, dark tail with 1 wide white...
Broad-winged Hawks exhibit shorter wings than other buteos, making them more similar in shape to accipiters but they show very broad bodies at eye level. In a glide, Broad-winged Hawks show stocky wings with the primaries projecting past the base of the wings only slightly.
