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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
Smallest of the North American buteos, the crow-sized Broad-winged Hawk breeds in forests from central Alberta east to Nova Scotia. With flight speeds of 32-64 km/h and use of "kettling? (wheeling and circling in the air), Broad-winged Hawks are noted for vast migratory flights southward. At Cardel, Veracruz, Mexico, it has been the second-commonest raptor, with 2,389,232 counted during the 2002 fall migration (Bildstein et al. 2008). It winters in south Florida, Central and South America as far south as Chile and Argentina, the West Indies, and, rarely, coastal California (Clark and Wheeler 1987).
This hawk hunts from a perch on the forest edge along clearings, roads, and trails, but nests are found in dense aspen or mixedwood forest near water. In migration, it alights wherever there is tree cover.
The Broad-winged Hawk is a fairly common summer resident in the southern fringes of the northern boreal region and in the southern boreal region; locally in the parklands and Cypress Hills. It is an uncommon transient in the parklands and grasslands (Smith 1996). Farthest north records of possible breeders come from Beaverlodge Lake 19 Jul 1960 (Nero 1963a) and along the Fond du Lac River near Stony Rapids 15 Jul 1963 (Nero 1967a).
Original text by Bert and Joan Dalziel. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Broad-winged Hawk in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Broad-winged Hawk in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=BWHA&lang=en [14 Nov 2025]
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