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 ...

For those of you who have never seen one, a broad-winged hawk is best described as a small cousin of the red-tailed hawk. Both birds are members of a group of raptors known as “Buteos” (pronounced ...

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 ...

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 ...

MENDOTA, Va. (WJHL) – Thousands of broad-winged hawks are on the move through the region, and you should be able to spot some if you take up Hawk Watching. With the Mendota, Virginia Heritage and Hawk ...

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, ...

The Sharp-shinned Hawk has also been called "pigeon hawk," "small stub-winged bullet hawk" and "little blue darter." "Sharp-shinned" refers to the flattened, thin tarsus or shank, not exactly a ...

During the month of March, there is enough of a migration occurring across the US to turn certain ridges, lakes, headlands, and coastal peninsulas into moving corridors of hawks, eagles, falcons, and ...