Prefer hawks and sparrows to songbirds? October is your month for bird watching. While songbird migrations end in September, October is the peak migration month for hawks and sparrows, said College of ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

The amber-listed bird is one of the smallest birds of prey in the UK, though it is pipped to the post by merlins, which have ...

The Dickcissel was even more unusual. Goff said the midwestern bird that winters in South America was last spotted in Juneau ...

For years, Eric Schroeder has gathered photographs of local leucistic birds: white (or whitish) woodpeckers, hummingbirds, ...

Often it is the common critters that go unnoticed or at least unappreciated. After all, when was the last time you noticed a house sparrow or pigeon? How about an eastern chipmunk or gray squirrel?

Q: I saw what I think was a Cooper's hawk carrying twigs by its feet in early April. We live in a residential area, so they couldn't be building a nest around here, could they? A: Yes, a pair of ...

Patterns of reproductive failure in declining populations of several European and North American raptorial species were duplicated experimentally with captive American sparrow hawks Falco sparverius ...

A macabre spectacle left strung around the woods of a city park left ramblers feeling as though they were in a Blair Witch film. Dead birds stuffed into and hanging from trees in Catton Park were ...

A gull gets away with a morsel of food from a bald eagle on a sheet of ice at Cheney Reservoir in this file photo. Bald eagles are in abundance in Kansas during the cooler months as winter migration ...

Often it is the common critters that go unnoticed or at least unappreciated. After all, when was the last time you noticed a house sparrow or pigeon? How about an eastern chipmunk or gray squirrel?