Labels:animal | basket | bird | buzzard | earth | fence | harrier | plant | plaything | red shouldered hawk | road | sculpture | sky | tree OCR: Broad -winged Hawk Buteo platvpterus This IS one of the true Iong-distance migrants among raptors Each fall, the Broad d-winged Hawks that breed I in the forests of Canada and the eastern United States migrate to their Central or South American wintering grounds distance of 3,500 l to4 1,.500 miles Returning in the spring the total is between .000 pue 9,000 miles Jean e Because the hawks are unable to glide over large bodies of water like the JO Mexico, virtually all of North America's Broad-winged Hawks mssr pass through Panama where in the fall of 1985. total of 788 111 were counted On its breeding grounds it i qainb e pueipoom Thawk one of the smallest of North American buteos The Broad-winged Hawk s a small to medium-sized buteo about the size o crow Male pue female sizes overlap consi ...