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

The Cooper’s hawk, a medium-sized accipiter, also visits bird feeders in winter. Very similar in appearance to the sharp-shinned hawk, it can take on larger prey such as pigeons, doves and squirrels.

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

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

The Cooper’s hawk, a medium-sized accipiter, also visits bird feeders in winter. Very similar in appearance to the sharp-shinned hawk, it can take on larger prey such as pigeons, doves and squirrels.

A Cooper’s hawk is an accipiter. That group includes the larger and quite rare goshawk and the smaller sharp-shinned hawk. All can fly rapidly through the woods with great agility. Diets of various ...

Red-tailed hawks, American kestrels, great-horned owls and screech owls all depend on rock pigeons for a meal. Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks, both in the accipiter family, spend much time in ...

I was walking along a short but windy trail in southern New England the other day in search of overwintering warblers. This ...