Fast, focused and fierce, the Cooper's hawk is built for the chase. Learn what a Cooper's hawk looks like and sounds like and ...

Use expert tips and a helpful chart to improve your hawk identification skills. Plus, learn about the common types of hawks ...

PROVIDENCE – If you’re into birds and you’ve heard about a new effort to rename species now named after historical figures, the good news is that you’ll have to learn new names for only two birds that ...

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 ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No… It really is a bird. As students stroll about on campus, they may find what wildlife researchers at the UA have been studying for the past 20 years: the Cooper’s Hawk.

Standing at the window watching the weather can become a consuming activity. Even if the weather seems changeless, something will come into view. While so engaged one day last week, a large bird swept ...

As you watch the visitors to your winter bird feeder, all the small birds that regularly feed there are suddenly gone. There's no movement in the area, all is still. Did a predator come in and consume ...

Not many years ago, a Cooper's hawk was considered a rare bird here. My copy of the Grand Forks County checklist, dated 2009, calls the Cooper's hawk "uncommon." Robert E. Stewart used the same word ...

Cooper’s hawks swoop through our suburban yard every month or so, making passes at our feeder birds. The hawk knows a good hunting opportunity when it sees one. A reader recently wrote to ask me what ...

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 ...