Virginia State Police said one of their troopers rescued a red-tailed hawk along I-64 this week. On Tuesday, troopers got a call, saying the raptor had been caught in wires in Alleghany County.

The red-tailed hawk is another one of the most common types of hawks in Virginia, if not the most common. They can be easily ...

A low-flying red-tailed hawk, an adult male likely hunting its next meal, found itself wedged in a car’s grill, just above ...

Virginia State Police said one of their troopers rescued a red-tailed hawk along I-64 this week. On Tuesday, troopers got a call, saying the raptor had been caught in wires in Alleghany County.

"The hawk has recovered - and now has lots of attitudes," said Sabrina Garbin with the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center. This red-tailed hawk is now back home and it's been a long journey back.

ROANOKE, Va. – The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center has just announced it will be releasing a red-tailed hawk into the wild at the Roanoke River Greenway.

Smith admitted to investigators to “killing in excess of 20 juvenile and mature bald eagles and hawks, primarily red-shouldered and red-tailed,” and handed over his batch of poison to ...

Red-tailed hawks use a more open area for hunting and typically nest on the edge of the woods, rather than deep in the forest as does the red-shouldered hawk.

Land-use changes are also responsible for changes to red-tailed hawks’ habits. According to a study by the University of Colorado, as humans develop more land, we inadvertently create more of the edge ...

Red-tailed hawks are typically smaller than bald eagles, reaching a wingspan between 3.4 and 4.8 feet as adults, while a bald eagle's wingspan can reach between 5.9 and 7.5 feet as an adult.

Red-tailed hawks live in our region year-round, but the one I saw on a cold November day may have been a winter visitor that spent summer in Canada, then flew south to live in northern Illinois ...