I have a friend who measures outings in red-tailed hawks. “It was a five-hawk drive,” she’ll exclaim after visiting a bucolic setting. That’s an easy image to conjure: fierce hawks perched high on ...

With around 2.5 million of them flying around North America, scientists know a lot about red-tailed hawks.But Angel, a red-tailed hawk in Knoxville, Tennessee, is getting the attention of scientists — ...

A baby red-tailed hawk, center, was plucked by bald eagle parents and is now sharing a nest in San Simeon with two eaglets, seen on May 26, 2024. Bill Franciscovish Strange bird bedfellows have been ...

I’ve been seeing more red-tailed hawks out and about these last days of autumn. While driving along a busy road, I’ve seen one soaring in the air spreading out its wide, rufous tail and broad wings.

In 1971, I stopped to photograph in a Mayan village in Campeche, a place so small that 40 years later it still doesn’t appear on most maps. Rows of traditional thatched roof houses lined both sides of ...

A New York State Department of Conservation Region 8 colleague regularly captured the most wonderful nature photographs. This time we are sharing a photo Russel captured of the Red-tailed hawk. Elena, ...

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 ...

A pair of eagles in a California nest have taken on an unusual addition – two baby red-tailed hawks. The first red-tailed hawk was brought to the nest in May. It was likely initially brought as prey ...

Last week, I regaled you with a story about a red-tailed hawk that kept showing up, forlornly staring out across my backyard, hoping to find something to eat. At the time, the problem was ...