Thousands of birders gather to watch the annual fall migration of broad-winged hawks. They start in September ... dark wing coverts and silvery flight feathers, the dark tail has a wide white ...

bald eagle 44, northern goshawk 40, northern harrier 33, merlin 69, American kestrel 17, peregrine falcon 10, rough-legged hawk 27, prairie falcon 7, broad-winged hawk 1, remainder unidentified.

Broad-winged counts in the entire U.S — including ... Nevertheless, dyed-in-the-feather hawk-watchers annually take the gamble that they’ll experience the great flights.

Broad-winged hawks epitomize the migration as they fly ... soaring on narrow 4-foot wingspans held at a slight V-angle, the dark flight feathers contrasting against light underwing linings.

For example, watch for kettles of broad-winged hawks ... with whitish wing linings accented by blackish flight feathers. Swainson’s hawks migrate from as close as the Texas Panhandle and ...

Depending on your sensitivity, it is either a rare treat or a disturbing scene to see a Cooper’s Hawk tear through the feathers of ... Red-shouldered, Broad-winged, and the aforementioned ...

Adult: brown above with lighter feather edges and some streaking ... Wingbeats are quick and shallow, interspersed with quick glides. Broad-winged hawk adult has rufous on breast, but no barring ...

BROAD-WINGED HAWK The broad-winged hawk is a bird of prey ... horizontal patterns across its snow-white chest, dark brown feathers covering the head and short tail when fanned exhibits bands ...

Red-tails are larger, with a telling tail: Adult red-tails have a rusty tail. Broad-winged hawks are smaller birds, and have tails with obvious bands. The two exist on common ground because they ...

Some helpful staff members at the Runge Nature Center in Jefferson City came to the aid of a distressed broad-winged hawk that had managed to get a few of its toes caught — in a turtle.