Harman retrieved Mickey, who traveled back to northwestern Monroe County in a cardboard box. Harman sat the box down outside ...

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 ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The quiet of a Sunday morning was jolted by the sudden explosion of the quail flock that had been leisurely enjoying my garden seed feeder. The reason soon became apparent. Right behind the fleeing ...

While I was at the Cape May Autumn Birding Festival, there was major chatter about a Swainson’s hawk spotted in the area, which excited all of us birders! But as I wondering how the heck people knew ...

The red-tailed hawks have caught the attention of San Francisco students and birdwatchers. And eggs may be coming soon.

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” ...