Red-tailed hawks are a favorite bird for many people and can easily be seen along our roadways and even along expressways. When perched, they can often be seen from a long distance if they are ...

This adult red-tailed hawk is easily identified by its prominent red tail feathers. Immature red-tailed hawks do not have red tails. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON— Editor’s note: This column was ...

Birds of prey are most often seen soaring high above, their majestic wings spread wide as they survey the land (or water) below them in search of prey. But this young red-shouldered hawk appears to be ...

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 ...

Well, folks, this El Niño thing turns out to be no joke. Winter officially started on Dec. 21 and I’ve only seen a few stray flakes here and there. Furthermore, any mention of snow in the weather ...

Before European settlement, when 95% of Ohio was blanketed in forests, red-shouldered hawks were common. But rampant deforestation that left only 10% of the state tree-covered by the early 1900s sent ...

If there has been any theme to this winter it has been cold. For the first time in years, the temperatures have dropped below freezing and generally remained there for weeks on end. Back when I was a ...

My first-floor classroom (I’m a high school teacher) windows look out on a courtyard in the middle of our school building. I moved down here from a second-floor outward-facing classroom a couple of ...

There are two kinds of buteos (broad-winged, soaring hawks) that are resident year-round in the Skiatook area, the red-tailed hawk and the red-shouldered hawk. Red-tailed hawks prefer open country, ...

One day, Barb Rogers was filming a family of loud, active kingfishers at Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County. She had the camera zoomed in on one of the young birds, which had his wings ...

PEARLAND, Texas (KTRK) -- A Brazoria County community is being told to be on the lookout for an overly protective mother. According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, a Red-shouldered Hawk ...

Stories about hawks and owls attacking people have made the news in recent years. However, there is more to these attacks than meets the eye. Authors of a new paper published in the Journal of Raptor ...