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Broad-winged hawk at Isle Royale National Park Sheepshead Sanctuary South Padre Island - Texas Molting feather pattern, only visible in May/June. The broad-winged hawk is a relatively small Buteo, with a body size from 32 to 44 cm (13 to 17 in) in length and weighing 265 to 560 g (9.3 to 19.8 oz).
Adults have long broad wings and a broad gray, rusty, or white tail. The legs are feathered to the talons, like the rough-legged hawk. There are two color forms: Light morph birds are rusty brown on the upper parts and pale on the head, neck, and underparts with rust on the legs and some rust marking on the underwing. The upper wings are grey.
Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings. In the Old World, members of this genus are called "buzzards", but "hawk" is used in the New World (Etymology: Buteo is the Latin name of the common buzzard [1]).
The Puerto Rican broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus brunnescens) is an endangered [4] subspecies of the broad-winged hawk (B. platypterus). It is a small hawk that occurs in Puerto Rico, [5] inhabiting the Toro Negro State Forest. [6] It is restricted to the montane forests of the Cordillera Central, Sierra de Cayey, and Sierra de Luquillo.
Rufous-morph bird in Hereford, Arizona, on its way to the pampas. Swainson's hawk is a raptor and a medium-sized member of the genus Buteo.It broadly overlaps in size with the red-tailed hawk (B. jamaicensis), a related species found as a breeding resident almost throughout North America.
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