On Veterans Day, I was sitting at my kitchen window with a delicious mug of freshly brewed coffee, a comfortable seat and freshly washed windows to look through. All I needed to do was wait and watch.

Technically speaking, families of all animals are classified into sub-groups. Such a sub-group is called a genus. The accipiter is a genus of the hawk family comprised of three species. The smallest ...

AS HAWKS migrate south to the tropics from September through November, they conserve energy by flapping their wings as little as possible. Instead, they glide on the wind. Local bird enthusiasts can ...

Many people enjoy hawks. Their fierce independence and obviously untamed nature evoke a wildness that we are often lacking in our daily lives, similar to the “fierce green fire” that writer and ...

Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What was that hawk doing here? A University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of ...

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