Experts say the first step in identifying raptors is determining their family or type. For hawks, that means buteos vs accipiters.

While I was at the Cape May Autumn Birding Festival, there was major chatter about a Swainson’s hawk spotted in the area, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pair of peregrine falcons fly over Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park on Sept. 21, during the fall hawk watch. Credit: Bob Duchesne Hawks are streaming through Maine right now. What are you ...

GREENWICH — Birders celebrated the start of hawk migration season with the Hawk Watch Kickoff and Raptor ID Workshop at Audubon Greenwich on Sunday. Audubon naturalist Ryan MacLean helped birders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red-tailed hawk, courtesy Suzanne Asaturian Hawk identification is tricky—there's no going around it. After years of staring at ...