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 ...

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 ...

Of our soaring Buteo hawks, this is the only one tied to cold climates. It nests in the Arctic, mostly in tundra regions north of the boreal forest; in winter, only a few move farther south than the ...

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 ...

The sun is low in the sky making this individual appear dark peachy above that black sash. The rough-legged hawk, Buteo lagopus, is a migrant. Like the winter finches, this avian migrates to us from ...

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 ...

This rather small tropical hawk enters our area only in Florida ... where it may go unnoticed by the observer on the ground. Unlike most of the Buteo hawks, the Short-tail feeds mostly on small birds, ...