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 ...

At the Mt. Feake Cemetery it is a quiet day, with no other people about for the moment, when my friend spots an enormous bird on a stone in the near vicinity. The large red-tailed hawk flies off to a ...

This is probably the most common species of hawk in North America. They are present in Arkansas year-round, but we get a huge influx of Red-tails in winter when those who breed in the northernmost ...

I’ve been seeing more red-tailed hawks out and about these last days of autumn. While driving along a busy road, I’ve seen one soaring in the air spreading out its wide, rufous tail and broad wings.

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 ...

It was a merciless fight, if the picture is any indication. A gray rat snake and a young red-tailed hawk were tangling, and a photo shared by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency shows the bird’s ...