Both are common hunters locally. Both are members of the buteo family, the term used to describe hawks with broad wings built for soaring. They look different, certainly, if you can get a close enough ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous. Thousands of birders gather to watch the annual fall migration of broad-winged hawks. They start in September in New England, traveling down the Appalachian ridges ...

Bill Haley knows his hawks. Each fall, for the past 29 years, he makes daily trips to the Soddy Mountain Hawk Watch observatory to count birds. "You bring a chair, you sit and wait. It's kind of like ...

Different hawks fly in different ways. Recognizing these differences in form and motion is a valuable key to raptor identification. Red-tailed hawks, our most common and widespread species, are the ...

For those of you who have never seen one, a broad-winged hawk is best described as a small cousin of the red-tailed hawk. Both birds are members of a group of raptors known as “Buteos” (pronounced ...

SOUTH NEWFANE The Putney Mountain Hawk Watch is a relatively small hawk watch site, as hawk watch sites go. The combination of ridge and elevation help to bring migrating hawks over the watch site at ...

As we prepare for the arrival of fall, we can also be on the lookout for a breathtaking wildlife spectacle that is a part of life here in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: the migration of the broad ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - A new South Florida study is helping out-of-state researchers follow a majestic bird. The broad-winged hawk named “Biscayne” is under close scrutiny at the Pelican Harbor Seabird ...

Raptors are moving past Hawk Ridge in Duluth in good numbers, but there has yet to be one of those unforgettable days when tens of thousands of Broad-winged Hawks soar over the ridge. Best days have ...

August is a month for red-tailed hawks. Other hawks occur here in August, but red-tailed hawks are the most numerous and the easiest to recognize. They are birds of open country. At this time of the ...