Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)

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Aphthona Fargo, ND(Zone 4a) Mar 07, 2016

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Chillybean (Zone 5a) Mar 07, 2016

Beautiful bird. I really like the pattern of the wing. The first Broad-winged Hawk I saw was also at a raptor presentation. I later saw one in the wild. In flight they look so much larger than when up close like this.

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Aphthona Fargo, ND(Zone 4a) Mar 08, 2016

Hawk Ridge MN counts the raptors passing over each fall. Birds that spent the summer in N Minnesota and Ontario encounter Lake Superior and ride the shoreline thermals all the way down to Duluth. On 2 days in Sep 2015 when I was there, they counted about 23,000 broad-winged hawks along with lesser numbers of other raptors.They have a web site.

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