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Broad-winged Hawk

Buteo platypterus

A summer resident that nests in Alabama. Found in all 67 counties, across 10 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
10

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
10
Habitat models
Summer, Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Alabama 10

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 10

Swamps

Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp
SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Swamp SystemsRegional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerWinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier; Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems; Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

WinterSouth-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods

Streams, rivers and their banks

Flowing water and its banks, bars and rocky shoals.

SummerCentral Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems; Cumberland Riverscour; South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian

Dry forests and woodlands

Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.

SummerWinterOnly within 250 m of water.East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood; Southern Coastal Plain Dry Upland Hardwood Forest; Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Hardwood Modifier; Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest

Moderately dry forests

Forests between dry and moist, often oak-hickory on slopes.

SummerWinterOnly within 250 m of water.East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest; Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest

Moist forests

Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.

SummerWinterOnly within 250 m of water.Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Mesic Slope Forest; South-Central Interior Mesophytic Forest

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

WinterOnly within 250 m of water.Developed, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Utility Swath - Herbaceous

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerWinterOnly within 250 m of water.Deciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (58)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.

  • Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest-Hardwood Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest - Xeric Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northeastern Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ouachita Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Beech-Maple Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • North-Central Interior Maple-Basswood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central and Southern Appalachian Montane Oak Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Loess Bluff Forest Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry and Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Mississippi River Alluvial Plain Dry-Mesic Loess Slope Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest - Pine modifier Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Mixed Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dry Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Central Appalachian Oak and Pine Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Appalachian Hemlock-Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood and Mixed Forest Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer, only within 250 m of water.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Winter, only within 250 m of water.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Basin Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Oak Dominated Modifier Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Winter.
  • South Florida Cypress Dome Winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
  • Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Alabama

  • Summer: nests here, in all 67 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 706

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 224

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources