The woman at the opposite end of the phone line was — well, she was hysterical. Absolutely enraged, and that’s putting it mildly. Whenever she’d pause to take a breath, I’d seize the opportunity to ...

Kiptopeke State Park hosts CVWO's hawk watch - a vital global raptor study. Visit now to join biologists tracking this epic ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

DULUTH — The hawks, tens of thousands of them each autumn, have been flying over Hawk Ridge here for centuries, maybe millennia, but it wasn’t always safe passage. In the 1930s and '40s, and probably ...

The practice of keeping and training any bird of prey is called “falconry” no matter the species of bird. Hawks are often ...

A council said it hoped a Harris's hawk would ruffle some feathers and deter pigeons and gulls from a market after ...

I really enjoy reading your weekly column in the newspaper, and it’s the first thing I turn to. My question is about hawks. It seems the population of songbirds has dropped off in our area, yet the ...

Fall is when hawks get most of the attention. The fall raptor migration is an amazing natural phenomenon, so it’s not surprising that talk of hawks dominate the bird world in the fall. Winter, however ...

The evidence is usually obvious. A pile of brown feathers indicates a mourning dove. Red feathers mean cardinal. Yellow suggests a goldfinch. Whenever I find a bunch of feathers in the yard, I’m ...

For the past three years, a family of red-tailed hawks has taken up residence and built a nest on top of a light pole on the northwest corner of Memorial Stadium on the Kansas University campus. The ...

Looking at our backyard bird feeding station on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there was not a bird in sight. What’s going on? It didn’t take me long to spot the issue. A sharp-shinned hawk was perched ...

(AP) — A Northern California man shot more than 130 hawks and other legally protected birds of prey on his land, leaving the carcasses to pile up at the foot of trees and telephone poles, wildlife ...