For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two of Georgia’s — and the nation’s — most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near ...

Swallow-tailed kites are a migratory bird species that can be seen in Florida for a portion of the year. Swallow-tailed kites make their nests in tall trees and are social birds, often congregating in ...

What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor with a little curved beak on a small dove-like head? You get the gray-headed kite. The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) ...

Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture. As we’ve ...

Now that it’s the last week of May the spring migration of raptors is almost done around here. Actually it’s been mostly over for a few weeks except for a late hawk or osprey here and there. Recently, ...

A red kite, or Milvus, a medium-sized bird of prey that is rare in Turkey, was spotted in İstanbul. The bird from the Accipitridae family, also known as the Hawk or Vulture family, was sighted by a ...

The tale of two brothers saving hundreds of birds — the carnivorous black kites injured by glass-coated strings on kites flown in the skies of Delhi — was nominated for an Academy Award this year. The ...