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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...