One day, Barb Rogers was filming a family of loud, active kingfishers at Little Swamp Sanctuary in western Midland County. She had the camera zoomed in on one of the young birds, which had his wings ...

PEARLAND, Texas — A red-shouldered hawk has been dive-bombing residents in a Pearland neighborhood as it fiercely protects its nest, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials. While these birds ...

Before European settlement, when 95% of Ohio was blanketed in forests, red-shouldered hawks were common. But rampant deforestation that left only 10% of the state tree-covered by the early 1900s sent ...

Apparently, humans aren’t the only animals that love avocados. In a rare sighting, a red-shouldered hawk was observed eating an avocado in California. The raptor’s snack raised questions about whether ...

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 ...

A common hawk of wet deciduous woodlands, they are the noisiest of the buteos, especially during spring courtship. A perch-hunter of the forest understory, it feeds on frogs, snakes, lizards, and ...

If Florida had a contest to choose a state hawk, based on sheer numbers the red-shouldered hawk would win, talons down. The red-shouldered hawk and red-tailed hawk are our two “buteos” — large, ...

A red-shouldered hawk’s shrill, high-pitched “keeyear-keeyear-keeyear” call pierced the early morning’s cold, crystalline air. It was perched atop a leafless sweetgum tree on the perimeter of a ...

Red-shouldered hawk populations in Ohio have rebounded alongside forest regrowth. A red-shouldered hawk nest was discovered in a Worthington resident's honey locust tree. Before European settlement, ...