Experts say the first step in identifying raptors is determining their family or type. For hawks, that means buteos vs accipiters.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky turned to the platform iNaturalist for data on two hawk species. They examined nearly 80,000 images of Cooper's hawks and sharp-shinned hawks submitted by ...

Considered a deft flier and known for chasing prey on the wing, a Cooper’s hawk on the hunt can dart through dense tree cover at speeds of up to 50 mph. This agile, crow-sized raptor can even flip ...

A determined crow refuses to leave a hawk alone, repeatedly harassing and attacking the larger bird in an amusing wildlife ...

A sharp-shinned hawk perches near a backyard feeder. The species is smaller than a Cooper’s hawk but hunts in much the same way. Credit: Courtesy of Bob Duschesne Almost everyone who feeds birds has ...

Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehab’s mission has grown over the years since it was founded almost 30 years ago. What started as a way to rescue injured raptors has grown in both size and scope since its humble ...

In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the ...

It's another sign that some raptors are back from the brink, after their populations were decimated in the 20th century ...

We have been seeing so many hatch-year young fledglings or juveniles this season … that experiencing the effects of West Nile ...

DULUTH, MINN. - The sky above Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory on Sept. 18 was gray, woolen and seemingly static. Lake Superior, though, was rocking with an east wind; whitecaps pocked its surface. And ...