Swallow-tailed kites are soaring again above the fields of Allendale and surrounding area, where they gather in large numbers every summer from mid-July to mid-August. The big black and white birds ...

We had been cruising U.S. 90 between Liberty and Dayton in the last week of July looking for swallow-tailed kites on their annual migration south. The birds rank among my wife Kathy's favorites to ...

With talons spread, a swallow-tailed kite closes in on an insect (center, upper right) for a quick bite on the fly. Anyone who sees one of these marvelous, soaring hawks is asked to asked to jot down ...

Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture. As we’ve ...

Swallow-tailed kites are a migratory bird species that can be seen in Florida for a portion of the year. Swallow-tailed kites make their nests in tall trees and are social birds, often congregating in ...

May 13, 1978 was a big day for birders Frank Bader and Milton Rinehart. While poking around Green Lawn Cemetery on Columbus’s south side, they discovered Ohio’s first record of Mississippi kite. I’m ...

Roy Wade isn't sure how long swallow-tailed kites have been making summer pilgrimages to the farm fields of Allendale County, but he's been making them since 1970. Back then, he and his children were ...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Late July and early August is usually a relatively slow time for birding in Alabama. For most birds, the breeding season has ended, and it's too soon for most migrants, such as ...

Swallow-tailed kites may not exactly hunt collaboratively, she said, but they do work in groups. “If I’m watching kites from an airplane, I’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting, it’s hunting all by ...

They're acrobatic magicians, raptors that hunt, eat and live mostly on the wing. Known for their aerial grace and their ability to snatch shifty prey out of the air, swallow-tailed kites spend much of ...

There was quite a stir this week among birdwatchers after the sighting of a swallow-tailed kite, a migratory bird of prey that hasn't been seen in Shawnee County since the 1970s. Though the birds are ...