Out of all the Buteo hawks, which includes the red-tailed hawk and the red-shouldered hawk, the broad-winged hawk is the smallest. However, they’re not the smallest hawk in the United States or ...

A common hawk of wet deciduous woodlands ... Length 15–19"; wingspan 37–42". A medium-size buteo with rounded wing tips that do not reach the tip of the tail. Adult: brown above with lighter ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous ... The smallest North American buteo. Dark morph: adult has an all-dark body with dark wing coverts and silvery flight feathers, the dark tail has a wide ...

Driving on Vermont’s Interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular intervals along the road. With the stark landscape providing better ...