#1350 · 🐦 birds

Broad-winged Hawk

🇳🇱 Breedvleugelbuizerd ·Buteo platypterus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The broad-winged hawk ( Buteo platypterus ) is a small hawk of the genus Buteo . During the summer, some subspecies are distributed over eastern North America, as far west as British Columbia and Texas; they then migrate south to winter in the neotropics from Mexico south to southern Brazil. Other subspecies are all-year residents on Caribbean islands. As in most raptors, females are slightly larger than males. Broad-winged hawks' wings are relatively short and broad with a tapered,...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 34,947iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
34,947 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1823 (203 years ago).