🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Broad-winged Hawk live?

Buteo platypterus has 1,210,957 records in 40 countries and territories, from 1811 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeButeo

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 813,957
Canada 193,045
Costa Rica 64,574
Colombia 47,931
Panama 23,660
Mexico 19,042
Ecuador 9,155
Honduras 4,754
Guatemala 4,672
Belize 4,413
Grenada 3,441
Nicaragua 2,673
Cuba 2,489
Saint Lucia 2,290
Venezuela 2,188
El Salvador 2,062
Trinidad & Tobago 2,016
Peru 1,657
St Vincent & the Grenadines 1,493
Dominica 1,468
Puerto Rico 1,302
Martinique 933
Antigua & Barbuda 721
Bolivia 276
Brazil 233
Suriname 174
Argentina 173
French Guiana 61
St Kitts & Nevis 29
Guyana 27
Sint Maarten 11
Dominican Republic 9
Paraguay 8
Guadeloupe 6
Barbados 1
DR Congo 1
Saint Martin 1
Montserrat 1
British Virgin Islands 1
ZZ 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.