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 ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous. Thousands of birders gather to watch the annual fall migration of broad-winged hawks. They start in September in New England, traveling down the Appalachian ridges ...

The Tin Mountain Conservation Center in Conway, New Hampshire, is a good one-hour drive from my house. But despite the drive, as with any nature program, anywhere, meeting up with like-minded folks to ...

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 ...

Cindy Hamilton photographed a broad-winged hawk at the Kiptopeke Hawk Watch on the Eastern Shore. Broad-winged hawks are most easily seen during migration when they are leaving the northern forests ...

Now that it’s the middle of September yellow leaves are either on or falling off many different trees. Virginia creeper vines are getting redder and so are poison ivy vines. And wild sunflowers, ...

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” ...

Broad-winged hawks will start returning to their wintering grounds in Central America and northern South America this week or the next . You have every chance of spotting one, if you know what to look ...

Our sometimes-incredible fall hawk migration not long ago surged through Massachusetts like clockwork between September 12 and September 20 every year. In a span of 10 days, 90% of the entire North ...

During the month of March, there is enough of a migration occurring across the US to turn certain ridges, lakes, headlands, and coastal peninsulas into moving corridors of hawks, eagles, falcons, and ...