58 Broad-winged Hawk

• A group of Broad-winged Hawks are called a; Boil / Knot / Stream / Tower.
• These birds migrate 3,000 to 6,000 Km flying up to 100 a day.  They fly in very large flocks up to 1,000 and only fly over land.
• They eat frogs, salamanders, snakes, mice, voles, chipmunks, small birds, insects and other small mammals.  They are very neat eaters and are known to skin the frogs and snakes that they catch and pluck the birds.
• During courtship the male will perform an aerial acrobat, dives, cartwheels and so on to catch the eye of the female.
• They rarely drink water and rely chiefly on liquids they get from their prey.
• They have a very large range of coloration depending on age and sex.  They have a short tail and broad wings that tapper on the ends.  We tend to only see the light morph coloration.