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Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus

From DVOC's Delaware Valley Birds: "Breeder in extensive woodlands. Large kettles of migrants pass through eastern Pennsylvania heading southwest between the 15th and the 20th of September. Coastal migration occurs later with mostly immature birds."


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