A study of hawks found that parents living in food-rich habitats produce more daughters, offering a new way to assess habitat ...

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 ...

If Florida had a contest to choose a state hawk, based on sheer numbers the red-shouldered hawk would win, talons down. The red-shouldered hawk and red-tailed hawk are our two “buteos” — large, ...

A new study published in the Journal of Raptor Research, titled "Factors Influencing Nestling Sex Ratios of Suburban and ...

A common hawk of wet deciduous woodlands, they are the noisiest of the buteos, especially during spring courtship. A perch-hunter of the forest understory, it feeds on frogs, snakes, lizards, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...