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 ...

The evidence is usually obvious. A pile of brown feathers indicates a mourning dove. Red feathers mean cardinal. Yellow suggests a goldfinch. Whenever I find a bunch of feathers in the yard, I’m ...

While I was at the Cape May Autumn Birding Festival, there was major chatter about a Swainson’s hawk spotted in the area, which excited all of us birders! But as I wondering how the heck people knew ...

Yes, a number of hawks hunt and eat smaller birds, and the sight of them strikes terror in the hearts of our backyard birds. If you've ever watched a crowd of ...

HUNTERTOWN, Ind. (WANE) — From offering owls mealworms to cleaning cages, Friday started off as usual for the volunteers at Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center. Although Friday, Jan. 5 is ...

Looking at our backyard bird feeding station on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there was not a bird in sight. What’s going on? It didn’t take me long to spot the issue. A sharp-shinned hawk was perched ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

One hot day in early June, a red-tailed hawk chick perched on the second-floor gutter of a Syracuse University sorority house, whistling plaintively for its parents. The chick had fledged the previous ...

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KEMPTON, Pa. -- It's a refuge for all: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary sits atop a ridge in a beautiful Pennsylvania valley. In 1934 some visionaries saw the opportunity to save the land and make it available ...