23, No. 3/4, Sep. - Dec., 1911 A Monograph of the Broad-Winged Hawk (Bu... A Monograph of the Broad-Winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

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 ...

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 ...