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 ...

Bill Haley knows his hawks. Each fall, for the past 29 years, he makes daily trips to the Soddy Mountain Hawk Watch observatory to count birds. "You bring a chair, you sit and wait. It's kind of like ...

Standing at the window watching the weather can become a consuming activity. Even if the weather seems changeless, something will come into view. While so engaged one day last week, a large bird swept ...

These creatures of contradiction aren’t hawks and aren’t the most active at night, but nighthawks are birds worth knowing ...

If you see a large bird soaring overhead, it’s likely this large hawk species. Red-tailed hawks are the "most widespread and familiar large hawk in Michigan,” according to the Michigan Department of ...

Look up in the sky this fall and you may see hawks flying overhead. This season, thousands of hawks are passing through metro Detroit as they travel south for the winter. September and October mark ...

Bird watchers aim their binoculars to follow the migration of hawks over Hawk Ridge. The observatory is hosting its annual Hawk Weekend Sept. 15-17 that will attract thousands of birdwatchers as the ...

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Volunteers and staff in Berks County spent more than 1,000 hours across 95 days to scan the skies for migrating birds. At Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, bird watchers found it was a good year for broad-wing ...