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 ...

“Every year, you know, there are winners and losers,” David Barber said as he settled into a comfortable chair at the Acopian Center for Conservation Learning at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. That was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we prepare for the arrival of fall, we can also be on the lookout for a breathtaking wildlife spectacle that is a part of life here in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: the migration of the broad ...

A broad-winged hawk, defending nest and chicks from even suggested observation, will protest with a shrill scream, a definite caution. Then come very close flybys, not-so subtle warnings to get the ...

MENDOTA, Va. (WJHL) – Thousands of broad-winged hawks are on the move through the region, and you should be able to spot some if you take up Hawk Watching. With the Mendota, Virginia Heritage and Hawk ...

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Albany Township announced that the latest issue of “The Journal of Raptor Research” features papers from two scientists who made their start at the Sanctuary. Field research ...

Kate Kampner is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. Theresa Armata remembers the scene atop Putney Mountain the ...