A New York State Department of Conservation Region 8 colleague regularly captured the most wonderful nature photographs. This time we are sharing a photo Russel captured of the Red-tailed hawk. Elena, ...

The red tailed hawk is one of North America’s largest and most powerful hawks. Known for its hunting strength and impressive flight ability, it can carry surprisingly heavy prey relative to its body ...

On Nov. 2, I trapped a juvenile red-tailed hawk and began the process of training. He will likely be returned to the wild after a year or two of guaranteed food, health benefits, and company housing, ...

I have a friend who measures outings in red-tailed hawks. “It was a five-hawk drive,” she’ll exclaim after visiting a bucolic setting. That’s an easy image to conjure: fierce hawks perched high on ...

Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it’s almost always obvious when you’ve seen a hawk. But which hawk? Red-tailed hawks are widespread across most of the ...

As one of the most common hawks in North Carolina, the red-tailed hawk can be spotted along roadsides and open fields, scanning for prey. See the video for interesting facts about hawks, including how ...

A red-tailed hawk lifts off from a branch in search of food on Tuesday at Lighthouse Field State Beach. About these birds, the Cornell Lab’s All About Birds website says, “This is probably the most ...

If there has been any theme to this winter it has been cold. For the first time in years, the temperatures have dropped below freezing and generally remained there for weeks on end. Back when I was a ...