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 ...

DULUTH — The hawks, tens of thousands of them each autumn, have been flying over Hawk Ridge here for centuries, maybe millennia, but it wasn’t always safe passage. In the 1930s and '40s, and probably ...

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 ...

I really enjoy reading your weekly column in the newspaper, and it’s the first thing I turn to. My question is about hawks. It seems the population of songbirds has dropped off in our area, yet the ...

What Does a Cooper’s Hawk Look Like? Adult male and female Cooper’s hawks have a bluish-gray back, blackish cap and white undersides crossed by horizontal reddish barring. The female averages almost ...

A Northern California man shot more than 130 hawks and other legally protected birds of prey on his land, leaving the carcasses to pile up at the foot of trees and telephone poles, wildlife officials ...

Kiptopeke State Park hosts CVWO's hawk watch - a vital global raptor study. Visit now to join biologists tracking this epic ...

Montclair Hawk Watch, the second oldest of its kind in the U.S., was recently visited by students. Soaring high above Montclair are various species of birds such as hawks, eagles, and turkey vultures.

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 ...

The quiet of a Sunday morning was jolted by the sudden explosion of the quail flock that had been leisurely enjoying my garden seed feeder. The reason soon became apparent. Right behind the fleeing ...

Simply put, logic shows the hawk in its place, doing what hawks do, living out nature's way, maintaining the balance of life and death. Somehow, though, I feel this nagging guilt. Every action has ...

(AP) — A Northern California man shot more than 130 hawks and other legally protected birds of prey on his land, leaving the carcasses to pile up at the foot of trees and telephone poles, wildlife ...