A bridge needing a facelift, a young man and an historic bar no more, and a couple more bird stories. Our place is becoming a raptor refuge. Not long after the osprey nest on the power pole next to ...

Back in Santa Barbara, when I see the red-tailed hawk lying dead on the road coming back from Rancho Las Cruces, I ...

Research found that Cooper’s Hawks in New Jersey adapted to the city by using cues from traffic signals and manipulating ...

Trina Young, a long-time Grays Harbor resident, spent much of her childhood outdoors on her family’s strawberry farm in Elma.

In a nutshell A young Cooper’s hawk in New Jersey learned to use pedestrian crossing signals, specifically their sounds, as ...

These recent sightings are compiled by Sue McGrath of the Newburyport Birders who says May is the month birders live for.

Harris's hawks symbolize teamwork, community and collaboration—sighting one encourages working alongside others to achieve goals. As their name suggests, sharp-shinned hawks have very slender ...

So it is with sharp-shinned hawks, which qualify as bycatch. I was standing outside when a small blur of bright red passed by my shoulder, followed a millisecond later by a larger streak of brown.

Today, I’ll be talking about some of these most common neighborhood hawks — the red-tailed, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks — with a closing glance at a few other local raptors.

Another, led by Erickson, is looking at a disease called capillaria in sharp-shinned hawks. The disease was first detected in the species in 2016 at Braddock Bay Raptor Research in New York.

The event is called Hawkwatch. With eyes to the skies, Sage Church spots a bird of interest, "Here's a high one going right over us, sharp-shinned hawk heading into the sun." Sage is joined by ...