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Birds of Cuba, Vagrant Visitors, Introduced Birds and Possibilities

Broad-winged Hawk

Petite Buse

Buteo platypterus

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Life, Habitat & Pictures of the Broad-winged Hawk

B L	W W	W	Family	Latin Name
15" 38cm	34" 86.4cm	14oz 396g	Accipitridae	Buteo platypterus

The Broad-winged Hawk is found throughout most of eastern North America's forests. It is seen from Nova Scotia, forming a finger reaching west, out into the prairies, and beyond to British Columbia, down through the central USA states, to Texas and east to Georgia. They migrate into South America every fall for the winter months. It has been a vagrant in Cuba.

Birds of Cuba