This Northern Goshawk visited the Southwestern New Mexico State Fairgrounds recently. This is a bird or prey that is considered the largest and bulkiest of the accipiters, according to All About Birds ...

The northern goshawk is a bird that likes old forests. The raptor, which can be seen flying through Southeast Alaska’s old-growth forests, was the focus of research biologist Winston Smith’s Juneau ...

Recently at a bird gathering in a family member’s backyard in Bismarck, an interesting raptor had shown itself, attempting to grab a bird near feeder for dinner. That interesting find was a northern ...

Broad-winged hawks are the most common raptor at Hawk Ridge. Bald eagles are the biggest. Sharpshins come through by the hundreds early each fall. But northern goshawks, the fierce hunters of the ...

I have been asked on occasion how I choose which bird to write about month to month. I do make an effort to write articles that are seasonal in nature. In the winter I tend to write about birds that ...

Early June is a time of growth, and we see what follows the warm and wet times of spring. The migration of birds during the last three months has been outstanding and now in this month, we see that ...

Seventeen-year-old Ike Watson had just woken from a nap Tuesday afternoon when his bedroom window shattered. The impact was strong enough to send glass across the room, and shards became embedded in ...

I’m walking in the foothills of the Lewis and Clark National Forest one morning, still kind of bleary-eyed and not as alert as I should be. At 5,200-feet elevation, this country is a textbook example ...

LAONA – On a cool June morning, the mature stand of trees in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest reverberated with a rapid-fire "ki-ki-ki-ki!" The vocalization was from one of Wisconsin's most ...

MADISON — A federal judge fined a Wisconsin falconer and ordered him to forfeit his truck for poaching a raptor. According to prosecutors and court documents, 69-year-old James Kitzman of Oak Creek ...