They turn slow circles on broad, rounded wings, with their tail feathers fanned out ... hoping to catch a tasty meal. One is the sharp-shinned hawk, our smallest accipiter. Raptors in this genus have ...

Use expert tips and a helpful chart to improve your hawk identification skills. Plus, learn about the common types of hawks ...

Driving on Vermont’s Interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular ...

A marine animal caught unintentionally by commercial fishing gear is known as bycatch. Dolphins trapped in nets targeting ...

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...

They turn slow circles on broad, rounded wings, with their tail feathers fanned out ... hoping to catch a tasty meal. One is ...

While the man-made and woman-made gusts and microbursts whip Washington, D.C., into chaos, the only disturbances here are at ...

Iridescent pink and green feathers highlight their necks and ... owls all depend on rock pigeons for a meal. Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks, both in the accipiter family, spend much time ...