Endangered snail kites are evolving quickly, but why? Are invasive snails helping this native Florida bird recover?

We know that certain species of birds are pretty intelligent, ... the Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus), the Black Kite (Milvus migrans), and the Brown Falcon (Falco berigora).

But while the Mississippi Kite actually has been expanding its territory in recent years, the Swallow-Tailed Kite has remained on the list of threatened birds. In the 1800s, Swallow-Tailed Kites ...

Five kite species live and breed in the United States. ... Swainson’s hawks, turkey vultures and other birds of prey join them. Perhaps kites and broad-wings can meet at Pilot Mountain, too.

Readers often email me this time of year, sometimes with accompanying photos, to find out the identity of a sleek, grayish, hawklike bird. What they are usually seeing is a Mississippi kite, and ...

The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) is known as the gavilán cabecigris in Spanish. It’s one of the 205 members of the Accipitridae (pronunciation here) family which is a diverse group of birds ...

The birds in question were last seen and documented at a number of different times, ranging from the Siau scops-owl last glimpsed in 1866 in Indonesia, to the Cuban kite last observed in 2010 in Cuba.

A realistic kite, thanks to the Virginia company Jackite. The company sells realistic recreations of various birds in both kite and windsock form, which are often used as scarecrows.

Recently, though, there have been several sightings of two different types of kites — raptors from the southern parts of the country. These birds are called kites because they spend almost all ...

Hurricane Irma was as rough on some wildlife as it was on the humans. Audubon of Florida reported Thursday that the storm destroyed all 44 nests around Lake Okeechobee built by the endangered ...