While it comes with its hunting advantages, such a face can make it where the northern harrier more closely resembles an owl than any of the other types of hawks in Virginia!

During this fall season, Aug. 27 to Nov. 5, the hawk team has been observing between 30 and 200 hawks a day, capturing and banding about 10 percent of the migrants.

It has a round face — in fact, that shape of face is referred to as a facial disc. ... And they are the only birds that do, except for a single type of hawk. That hawk is the harrier, ...

A filmmaker has captured rare footage showing a short-eared owl ambushing a northern harrier and clobbering the hawk with a perfectly executed front kick. Freddy Moyano was afield late Tuesday in ...

Erie was perched on a sunny branch when I met her on a cold day in March. She turned her head this way and that to survey her surroundings at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences. She is a ...

Georgia’s hawk species include red-shouldered, red-tailed, broad-winged, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks. A sixth hawk species, the Northern harrier, is a winter-only resident that is ...

A harrier hawk (kahu) found in Wairoa this week died a “slow miserable death” and the Department of Conservation (DoC) is appealing to the public for information.“I’ve never seen anything ...

Nov. 17—MYSTIC — In a classroom Sunday at the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, a four-pound red-tailed hawk named Scarlet, who had been injured in a car accident, perched atop Kim Hargrave's ...

Winter is a great time for birding and Sauvie Island is the place to spot the Fantastic Four of raptors - Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, a ...

Noha, a long-winged and long-tailed hawk called a northern harrier, ... these birds have facial disks — a ring around their face that helps them use their hearing to hone in on prey.

A hawk caught my attention as I drove through the countryside of Davie County. Hawks are common sights in this largely agricultural county where you can see red-tails perched on ...