In one of the better videos on the internet this week, a hungry hawk gets in a fight with a defensive mother hen. The real dispute, however, unfolds between a guy who wants to rescue the drowning hawk ...

I grew up with bird names now long gone. We had the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk and duck hawk. These are now the American kestrel, merlin and peregrine falcon. We also had the marsh hawk, now the ...

Researchers don’t often turn to the general public for help with scientific studies. However, for scientists seeking to better understand the dietary habits of two hawk species, involving citizen ...

Hawks visit our backyard feeders in Essex almost every day — often more than once a day. With all the snow cover that we have had, and with all the birds congregating at the bird feeders, many ...

Have you ever heard that expression "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it must be a duck?" Well, it's not true. It's also not true that all ducks are mallards. These ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky turned to the platform iNaturalist for data on two hawk species. They examined nearly 80,000 images of Cooper’s hawks and sharp-shinned hawks submitted by ...