Not surprisingly, the best areas in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to watch for fall flights of the broad-winged hawk are also vantage points in the higher elevations including Newfound Gap ...

So the big winners this past fall were the broad-winged hawks, he said. The broad-winged hawk flights were exceptional this past fall with four days in a row of numbers surpassing 2,000 each day.

Broad-winged hawk and other raptor migration is an integral part of the annual flow of natural happenings. Keep your eyes on the sky. You may be well rewarded.

Both are common hunters locally. Both are members of the buteo family, the term used to describe hawks with broad wings built for soaring. They look different, certainly, if you can get a close ...

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.

They found a juvenile broad-winged hawk with several toes caught in the shell of a three-toed box turtle. According to the department, naturalists believe the hawk tried to catch the turtle for ...