Bird
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterus
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in all 67 counties, across 9 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 9

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 9
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 9
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.


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.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Tidal forests and thickets of red, black and white mangrove along sheltered tropical and subtropical shores.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Forests on moist but not wet ground, such as rich slopes and ravines.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
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.
Other habitats in its models (71)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Central and Southern Appalachian Northern Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Limestone Forest Summer and winter, 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.
- Southern Interior Low Plateau Dry-Mesic Oak Forest Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, 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.
- Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood 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.
- Southern Piedmont Mesic Forest Summer and winter, only within 250 m of water.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Mesic Hardwood Forest Summer and winter, 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.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) 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 Ridge and Valley Dry Calcareous Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- Southern and Central Appalachian Cove Forest Summer, only within 250 m of water.
- South-Central Interior Mesophytic 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.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Swamp Systems Summer.
- 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.
- Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
- South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
- Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer and winter.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
- Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
- Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
- Cumberland Riverscour 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.
- Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- Red River Large Floodplain Forest Summer.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer and winter.
- South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
- Mississippi River Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
- Ozark-Ouachita Riparian Summer.
- South-Central Interior / Upper Coastal Plain Wet Flatwoods Winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
Seasons in Florida
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 37 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 9 of 67 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 38 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 333
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Croomia; Elfin ShoesCroomia pauciflora
- Canadian HonewortCryptotaenia canadensis
- Ctenium floridanumCtenium floridanum
- Tropical WaxweedCuphea aspera
- TitiCyrilla racemiflora
- Lowland Bladder FernCystopteris protrusa
- Silky OatgrassDanthonia sericea
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
- Ghost OrchidDendrophylax lindenii
- Cream Tick-trefoilDesmodium ochroleucum
- Branched FoldwingDicliptera brachiata
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Florida Butterfly OrchidEncyclia tampensis
- Teal LovegrassEragrostis hypnoides
- Black-bracted PipewortEriocaulon nigrobracteatum
- American Strawberry-bushEuonymus americanus
- Hollow Joe-pye-weedEutrochium fistulosum
- Strangler FigFicus aurea
- Fissidens leptophyllusFissidens leptophyllus
- Eastern Swamp PrivetForestiera acuminata
- Forestiera godfreyiForestiera godfreyi
- Carolina BuckthornFrangula caroliniana
- Swamp JessamineGelsemium rankinii
- Carolina JessamineGelsemium sempervirens
Wildlife 267
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Northern ParulaParula americana
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Broad-winged Hawk
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)





































