A red-tailed hawk sits atop the flagpole at Santa Cruz High’s Memorial Field during a recent afternoon. According to Global Raptor Conservation’s hawkmountain.org website, “Although red-tailed hawks ...

A red-tailed hawk lifts off from a branch in search of food on Tuesday at Lighthouse Field State Beach. About these birds, the Cornell Lab’s All About Birds website says, “This is probably the most ...

On Nov. 2, I trapped a juvenile red-tailed hawk and began the process of training. He will likely be returned to the wild after a year or two of guaranteed food, health benefits, and company housing, ...

If there has been any theme to this winter it has been cold. For the first time in years, the temperatures have dropped below freezing and generally remained there for weeks on end. Back when I was a ...

The kitten was never in physical danger of being reached; the real “close call” was the hawk nearly knocking itself out on the barrier. Red-tailed hawks typically hunt at speeds between 20 and 40 mph.

Under the shade of oak trees in the late afternoon, about 200 people were fixated on Buster, a red-tailed hawk. As handler Christian Gonzalez slowly walked through the crowd with Buster on his gloved ...

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — Meet Thora, a one-year-old red-tailed female hawk. 15-year-old Kassidy Simcox trapped her back in September. The Lock Haven native says she discovered her love for animals at a young ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - It was a typical Thursday afternoon before spring break for students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The sun was out and students had on jackets in the near-28-degree ...

Take a leisurely drive along U.S. Highway 6, following the Eagle River from Edwards to Eagle, and you’re likely to spot a famous, medium-sized, multi-colored raptor scanning the surrounding shrublands ...

Soren, one of the Audubon Community Nature Center’s ambassador red-tailed hawks, is pictured. Red-tailed Hawks are one of the most common and widespread raptors of North America, but they are also ...

My wife and I often joke that we have our own little wild kingdom in our backyard. Over the years that we have lived in our house on the southeast side of Pittsfield, we have seen creatures big and ...