Red-tailed hawks are a favorite bird for many people and can easily be seen along our roadways and even along expressways. When perched, they can often be seen from a long distance if they are ...

Both are common hunters locally. Both are members of the buteo family, the term used to describe hawks with broad wings built for soaring. They look different, certainly, if you can get a close enough ...

Red-shouldered hawk populations in Ohio have rebounded alongside forest regrowth. A red-shouldered hawk nest was discovered in a Worthington resident's honey locust tree. Before European settlement, ...

This adult red-tailed hawk is easily identified by its prominent red tail feathers. Immature red-tailed hawks do not have red tails. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON— Editor’s note: This column was ...

Birds of prey are most often seen soaring high above, their majestic wings spread wide as they survey the land (or water) below them in search of prey. But this young red-shouldered hawk appears to be ...

My first-floor classroom (I’m a high school teacher) windows look out on a courtyard in the middle of our school building. I moved down here from a second-floor outward-facing classroom a couple of ...

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 ...

One day, Barb Rogers was filming a family of loud, active kingfishers at Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County. She had the camera zoomed in on one of the young birds, which had his wings ...

There are two kinds of buteos (broad-winged, soaring hawks) that are resident year-round in the Skiatook area, the red-tailed hawk and the red-shouldered hawk. Red-tailed hawks prefer open country, ...