A neighbor had been hearing some strange sounds for more than a day; she was pretty sure they were bird calls and asked if I would come check it out. As I walked toward her house, I heard it, too, ...

Looking at our backyard bird feeding station on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there was not a bird in sight. What’s going on? It didn’t take me long to spot the issue. A sharp-shinned hawk was perched ...

In one of the better videos on the internet this week, a hungry hawk gets in a fight with a defensive mother hen. The real dispute, however, unfolds between a guy who wants to rescue the drowning hawk ...

The Swainson’s hawk is a raptor of the open fields and prairies of the central and western regions of the country and a rare visitor to New England. It is a member of the buteo family – large hawks ...

What Does a Cooper’s Hawk Look Like? Adult male and female Cooper’s hawks have a bluish-gray back, blackish cap and white undersides crossed by horizontal reddish barring. The female averages almost ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota is home to one of the world's premier bird observation sites. This time of year, the airspace above Hawk Ridge on the western edge of Lake Superior draws tens of thousands of ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...