Broad-winged hawk migration is passing FAST! Are you keeping up? Our transmitted broadwings (Buteo platypterus) are already pushing through the southeast U.S., where we are checking into the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch in Virginia! This site was established in 1976 by a group of friends who enjoyed birdwatching in their free time and is now one of over 200 hawkwatch sites that participates in sharing migration data on Hawk Migration Association’s hawkcount.org. The peak period for Rockfish Gap has a

Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus) migration is in full-flight—have you been keeping up? We are tracking the flight of a transmitted broadwing who just passed through New England on their southbound journey. The Harris Center for Conservation Learning has been a key collaborator of Hawk Mountain and The Broad-winged Hawk Project since 2021. The final push of broadwings over Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory in New Hampshire marks the first leg (or wing!) of their migration. So far this season

Swainson’s Hawks make an incredible journey every year, migrating 12,000 miles round-trip from North America’s prairies to Argentina’s pampas. What makes them truly unique is their diet. Most hawks hunt rodents and reptiles, but Swainson’s Hawks switch to insects, feasting on grasshoppers and locusts in South America. In the 1990s, this diet nearly led to disaster when pesticides in Argentina killed over 20,000 hawks in two years. But a successful international conservation effort saved them. Sw