Both are common hunters locally. Both are members of the buteo family, the term used to describe hawks with broad wings built for soaring. They look different, certainly, if you can get a close enough ...

“Every year, you know, there are winners and losers,” David Barber said as he settled into a comfortable chair at the Acopian Center for Conservation Learning at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. That was a ...

Standing at the window watching the weather can become a consuming activity. Even if the weather seems changeless, something will come into view. While so engaged one day last week, a large bird swept ...

Our sometimes-incredible fall hawk migration not long ago surged through Massachusetts like clockwork between September 12 and September 20 every year. In a span of 10 days, 90% of the entire North ...

The red-tailed hawks have lived and hunted my meadows for many years, occasionally letting out a loud, long scream as they lumber slowly away when their domain is entered. They often own the tall, old ...

Bill Haley knows his hawks. Each fall, for the past 29 years, he makes daily trips to the Soddy Mountain Hawk Watch observatory to count birds. "You bring a chair, you sit and wait. It's kind of like ...

As we prepare for the arrival of fall, we can also be on the lookout for a breathtaking wildlife spectacle that is a part of life here in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: the migration of the broad ...

Occasionally, a Cooper’s Hawk will chase the birds at our feeder. Today, however, a hawk ignored the birds and instead dove into our rather tall grass and came out with a chipmunk. Any idea what kind ...

KEMPTON, Pa. (AP) — September is the month of cool, crisp mornings that surrenders its midday grip to the sultriness of summer. There is a conquering of climate change happening by the hour. From ...

During the whole month of August, only 23 broad-winged hawks were documented by the observation team on the summit of Mount Wachusett. And for the last couple of weeks, conditions for hawk watching ...

Each fall, thousands of broad-winged hawks soar across the New England sky in flocks known as kettles, on their way to wintering grounds in South and Central America. The sky swirls with hawks ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The 2023 Christmas Bird Count is in the books, and both Traverse City and Lake Leelanau broke records for the number of species observed. “[It was] an incredible day by awesome birders ...