A bald eagle checks out the surroundings in Rye, N.H. on May 7, 2023. You’ve probably seen a bald eagle in a film or TV show, where the bird soars gracefully and swoops with might to catch its prey.

Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye. He watched as a young Cooper’s hawk darted out of a tree, soared low to the ground along a line ...

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 ...

Friends with bird feeders have told me that they’ve sometimes seen a hawk diving past their window toward their bird feeder. “It’s usually a Cooper’s hawk at bird feeders, especially in winter,” said ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

When sighting one or more of these swift and agile raptors in our yard became a near-daily event last week, I began to contemplate penning this month’s column about them. Then one morning brought a ...

Look up in the sky this fall and you may see hawks flying overhead. This season, thousands of hawks are passing through metro Detroit as they travel south for the winter. September and October mark ...

Keep looking up. A spectacular hawk migration is happening high in the sky now through autumn. Multitudes of hawks will soar through the sky on a journey from their northern breeding grounds to their ...