| In flight, it has the broad-winged, wide-tailed look of the buteos, the soaring hawks that are built like small eagles. |
| It's easy this time of year to forget that the skies belong to birds other than buteos, accipiters, and their ilk. |
| The large hawks, called Buteos, often drift overhead without flapping their wings while they ride an updraft of warm air, known as a thermal. |
| For example, most buteos eat primarily small mammals and most accipiters prey on birds. |
