My first-floor classroom (I’m a high school teacher) windows look out on a courtyard in the middle of our school building. I moved down here from a second-floor outward-facing classroom a couple of ...

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, ...

Today Brooklyn Bird Watch features a Heather Wolf photo of the Red Shouldered Hawk, a cousin to the Red Tailed Hawk, featured in Brooklyn Bird Watch back in June of 2021. Today’s photo by Ms Wolf was ...

A Red-shouldered Hawk perches on a car as it surveys a lagoon in a Hilton Head Island neighborhood. Vicky McMillan You may hear a Red-shouldered Hawk even before you spot it high overhead. Its loud, ...

Baby birds identify with human caregivers. This process is known as imprinting, a phenomenon my family observed when our daughter Vicki raised a baby mockingbird that fell from a nest we never found.

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 ...

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 ...