I saw one of the most beautiful birds of prey in North America this week, as it hovered over a fallowed field north of Highline Road: a White-tailed Kite. These striking birds are among my favorites ...

At first, I thought it was another sharp-shinned hawk, but then I saw the rounded tail feathers instead of the square ones – a coopers hawk had joined the harvest. The songbirds were constantly ...

But then, on Tuesday morning, something extraordinary happened. I was out on the Carpinteria Bluffs Trail, camera in hand, and heard that beautiful and unique screech of a red-tailed hawk. Its ...

Lieve Monnens captured these photos of a red-tailed hawk chilling out on the Princeton University campus. Staring contest: A red-tailed hawk makes eye contact in front of Stanhope Hall on the ...

Looking at it through binoculars, the beak was all wrong and the tail-to-body ratio was wrong for a gyrfalcon.” He was looking at “a near fully leucistic red-tailed hawk.” Animals with ...