DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota is home to one of the world's premier bird observation sites. This time of year, the airspace above Hawk Ridge on the western edge of Lake Superior draws tens of thousands of ...

Clinton Nienhaus and Kristina Dexter have seen tens of thousands of raptors fly over during five years on staff (Nienhaus) or as a volunteer (Dexter) at Duluth's Hawk Ridge. But what they experienced ...

DULUTH — The hawks, tens of thousands of them each autumn, have been flying over Hawk Ridge here for centuries, maybe millennia, but it wasn’t always safe passage. In the 1930s and '40s, and probably ...

A neighbor had been hearing some strange sounds for more than a day; she was pretty sure they were bird calls and asked if I would come check it out. As I walked toward her house, I heard it, too, ...

Q: I saw what I think was a Cooper's hawk carrying twigs by its feet in early April. We live in a residential area, so they couldn't be building a nest around here, could they? A: Yes, a pair of ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is seeking to remove penalties for the killing or capture of two protected species of hawks, drawing the ire of conservation groups. Under Senate Bill 59, sponsored by Sen. Gary ...

Friends with bird feeders have told me that they’ve sometimes seen a hawk diving past their window toward their bird feeder. “It’s usually a Cooper’s hawk at bird feeders, especially in winter,” said ...

In the animal kingdom, many creatures develop unique ways of relaying information to their kin, but a new study highlights just how important it can be for certain animals to glean information from ...

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 ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Sometimes bad things happen after a young bird leaves its nest. Sometimes, though, there can be a happy ending when humans intervene. That was the case when a young red-tailed hawk, ...