Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it's almost always obvious when you've seen a hawk. But which hawk? Red-tailed hawks are widespread across most of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hawks and falcons are both raptors, or birds of prey, but they differ in appearance, behaviour, and biology. People often confuse the two, even using their names interchangeably, yet falcons and hawks ...

Birds of prey are those amazing raptors that seem in abundance here, and with the hawk migration in progress, we can expect to see more. These silent hunters have attracted a lot of attention this ...