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 ...

The Tin Mountain Conservation Center in Conway, New Hampshire, is a good one-hour drive from my house. But despite the drive, as with any nature program, anywhere, meeting up with like-minded folks to ...

Cindy Hamilton photographed a broad-winged hawk at the Kiptopeke Hawk Watch on the Eastern Shore. Broad-winged hawks are most easily seen during migration when they are leaving the northern forests ...

Broad-winged hawks will start returning to their wintering grounds in Central America and northern South America this week or the next . You have every chance of spotting one, if you know what to look ...

Now that it’s the middle of September yellow leaves are either on or falling off many different trees. Virginia creeper vines are getting redder and so are poison ivy vines. And wild sunflowers, ...

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 ...

It’s technically still winter, but spring is already on the move. The song of the red-winged blackbird has long been associated with the start of the season. And those long-awaited “conk-la-lee” ...

If you missed Hawk Weekend at Hawk Ridge you didn't miss too much migration. Due to unfavorable winds, rain and fog, hawks were mostly staying put. But the birds started moving big time last week, ...