One day last January I was out looking for snowy owls near New Holland with my wife, Jan, and several friends, and we found two. It was exciting but not unexpected because several had been reported in ...

A rough-legged hawk kiting in Hampton, New Hampshire. The rough-legged hawk is an Arctic visitor that spends the winter in New Hampshire. It has a unique ability to hover in mid-air while hunting, and ...

A lot of good things can be said about the rough-legged hawk, and it's not hard to get started. The rough-legged hawk is conspicuous and easily identified, yet it is enigmatic and even exotic. It is a ...

Each year when the first snow flies many species head south for their annual migration. Arizona is a favorite destination for Montanans. Some prefer Florida, California or the Caribbean. But, what ...

Last year, it was the snowy owl. This year, it’s the rough-legged hawk that has come down into Berks in unusual numbers from the tundra regions. Individual birds spotted migrating at Hawk Mountain on ...

Jeff picked me up at 7:30 a.m. and we spent the day zig-zagging county roads between Loveland and Prewitt Reservoir. He does the driving, which frees me to search the ground and sky and all the ...

We report a specimen that appears to be a hybrid between Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) and Rough-legged Hawk (B. lagopus), which, to our knowledge, is the first hybrid specimen for the genus.

This episode was originally broadcast on Nov. 19, 2021. When we think of snowbirds, we usually mean folks who leave New Hampshire in the winter for warmer places like Florida or Arizona. But the rough ...