This hawk looks a lot like a common red-tailed hawk (chicken hawk) but it is not. It is a red-shouldered hawk. The red-shouldered hawk is slightly smaller and tends to stay in or close to bottomland ...

While several hawk species migrate, the red-tailed hawk stays around all year and is the most common one seen. They prefer to hang out in open fields near woodland edges. […] ...

Before European settlement, when 95% of Ohio was blanketed in forests, red-shouldered hawks were common. But rampant deforestation that left only 10% of the state tree-covered by the early 1900s sent ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- If you're driving through Southern Illinois and it seems as if there is a red-tailed hawk sitting in every tree and on nearly every fence post, you aren't imagining things.

My first-floor classroom (I’m a high school teacher) windows look out on a courtyard in the middle of our school building. I moved down here from a second-floor outward-facing classroom a couple of ...

Take a leisurely drive along U.S. Highway 6, following the Eagle River from Edwards to Eagle, and you’re likely to spot a famous, medium-sized, multi-colored raptor scanning the surrounding shrublands ...

Red-shouldered hawk populations in Ohio have rebounded alongside forest regrowth. A red-shouldered hawk nest was discovered in a Worthington resident's honey locust tree. Before European settlement, ...

Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it's almost always obvious when you've seen a hawk. But which hawk? Red-tailed hawks are widespread across most of the ...