Looks like: Northern harriers are slender, medium-sized hawks. Adult males have gray-and-white plumage, while the juveniles and larger females are mostly brown. Harriers have a distinct white patch at ...

Erie was perched on a sunny branch when I met her on a cold day in March. She turned her head this way and that to survey her surroundings at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences. She is a ...

A rare hawk, which is on the state-endangered species list, was nursed back to health by the conservation district after he ...

I grew up with bird names now long gone. We had the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk and duck hawk. These are now the American kestrel, merlin and peregrine falcon. We also had the marsh hawk, now the ...

The bird I have photographed here is a northern harrier. It is a medium-size hawk native to North America. Its summer range extends into Northern Canada and Alaska, but its winter range brings it as ...

An unusual bird that's new to the Ojai Raptor Center will meet the public for the first time Sunday as the center holds an open house — one of the two each year that are the only times nature ...

A hawk caught my attention as I drove through the countryside of Davie County. Hawks are common sights in this largely agricultural county where you can see red-tails perched on utility poles or ...