The average adult red-tailed hawk is about 20 inches long (from bill to tail), slightly shorter than North America's largest, the Ferruginous hawk, about 25 inches long.

Some individuals migrate a long way, while others go a short distance; still others linger all year if the winter will allow it. However, according to a study by HawkWatch International, migratory and ...

Cooper's hawks have been in Alameda news recently, after APD animal control officer Alaina Onesko rescued a young Cooper's hawk that had become stuck in sap. Rick Lewis highlights these birds of ...

The uplifted wing of a red-tailed hawk catches the late afternoon sunlight as the majestic bird lifts off from a tree along Empire Grade near the West Entrance to UC Santa Cruz.

Beside her, Harvard forest ecologist Neil Pederson nodded solemnly. The duo’s research into the red-tailed hawk in the Eastern United States is one of a handful of examples of prominent ...

THE WINGS AND TAIL OF THIS RED TAILED HAWK ARE ALL GONE, MEANING IT COULD NOT SURVIVE IN THE WILD. ... "It would need some long-term rehab — at least two years — which is very costly.