When I was a kid, the tiny, wary hawks that perched on utility wires or limbs and swooped down to catch grasshoppers and field mice on nearby farms were called “sparrow hawks.” The name, I then ...

Prefer hawks and sparrows to songbirds? October is your month for bird watching. While songbird migrations end in September, October is the peak migration month for hawks and sparrows, said College of ...

A gull gets away with a morsel of food from a bald eagle on a sheet of ice at Cheney Reservoir in this file photo. Bald eagles are in abundance in Kansas during the cooler months as winter migration ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

We all know that nature is not very pretty sometimes. Predation, for example, when viewed out of context, can seem quite a brutal affair. And yet, without one creature eating another, we’d have no ...

FORTY years ago I heard the fable of the Turkey Buzzard and the Sparrow Hawk told inimitably by a man whose name I have forgotten; but it was in a clamorous city of the Middle West lying along a slow ...

Often it is the common critters that go unnoticed or at least unappreciated. After all, when was the last time you noticed a house sparrow or pigeon? How about an eastern chipmunk or gray squirrel?

A macabre spectacle left strung around the woods of a city park left ramblers feeling as though they were in a Blair Witch film. Dead birds stuffed into and hanging from trees in Catton Park were ...

If you feed birds in your backyard, don’t be surprised if you’re watching one day and a bird at your feeder suddenly vanishes into thin air. Well, maybe not totally disappears but there sure won’t be ...

Often it is the common critters that go unnoticed or at least unappreciated. After all, when was the last time you noticed a house sparrow or pigeon? How about an eastern chipmunk or gray squirrel?