· Medium-sized hawk. Female larger than male. · Body stout. · Wings broad. · Wings pale, with dark trailing edge. · Tail medium-short. · Tail dark with one thick white band in middle, and one thinner near tail base and tip. · Face dark. · Chest reddish, reddish barring along sides. · Throat white.
Broad-winged hawks eat mostly small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and large insects. They breed in deciduous or mixed-deciduous forests and spend the winter in tropical forests. (National Geographic, 2011)