SPAULDING TOWNSHIP, MI — A red-tailed hawk has returned to Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge to spend its 27th winter. Refuge employees can tell this particular hawk apart because it is a dark phase ...

A New York State Department of Conservation Region 8 colleague regularly captured the most wonderful nature photographs. This time we are sharing a photo Russel captured of the Red-tailed hawk. Elena, ...

Take a leisurely drive along U.S. Highway 6, following the Eagle River from Edwards to Eagle, and you’re likely to spot a famous, medium-sized, multi-colored raptor scanning the surrounding shrublands ...

Red-tailed Hawks are one of the most common and widespread raptors of North America, but they are also beautiful and fierce birds. Bridgette, one of the Red-tailed Hawk ambassadors at Audubon ...

HOLYOKE ― A red‑tailed hawk sat shaking in the bed of Tom Ricardi’s pickup last Sunday, disoriented and unable to fly. By Monday, it was dead. One more bird that Ricardi, a retired Massachusetts ...

Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it’s almost always obvious when you’ve seen a hawk. But which hawk? Red-tailed hawks are widespread across most of the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A red-tailed hawk that was banded over 20 years ago in Pennsylvania was found 1,000 miles away in Canada, which the Game Commission says is quite the feat. The Pennsylvania Game ...

Many people enjoy hawks. Their fierce independence and obviously untamed nature evoke a wildness that we are often lacking in our daily lives, similar to the “fierce green fire” that writer and ...