When sighting one or more of these swift and agile raptors in our yard became a near-daily event last week, I began to contemplate penning this month’s column about them. Then one morning brought a ...

New research has found that hawks hunting swarming bats steer towards a fixed point in the swarm rather than targeting any one individual. Swarms of bats, flocks of birds, or shoals of fish, may not ...

Cooper’s hawks swoop through our suburban yard every month or so, making passes at our feeder birds. The hawk knows a good hunting opportunity when it sees one. A reader recently wrote to ask me what ...

GREAT FALLS (AP) — When Billings hunter Chris Lassen heads to the field this fall, he will take a new weapon — a ferruginous hawk. Lassen is a licensed falconer and in mid-June took the baby hawk from ...

Many breeds of hawks live and hunt in Santa Barbara County. Cats, small dogs, pet birds (outside in their cages for the day or in aviaries), chickens, other poultry and rabbits may become a meal for ...

It's time for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. And joining us this time are Regina Barber and Berly McCoy. Good to have you both here. BERLY MCCOY, BYLINE: Hey, Ari.

Well, folks, this El Niño thing turns out to be no joke. Winter officially started on Dec. 21 and I’ve only seen a few stray flakes here and there. Furthermore, any mention of snow in the weather ...

It’s 6:30 a.m., and the party has started. Whooshing wings and winsome whistles break the silence of the Old West Side, sending groggy residents of the Longview neighborhood to look for the source of ...

A study published this week in Nature Communications shows how hunting hawks solve the problem of intercepting a single bat within a dense swarm. The findings increase our understanding of how ...