Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

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 ...

Use expert tips and a helpful chart to improve your hawk identification skills. Plus, learn about the common types of hawks ...

Introduction : the allure of raptors -- The birds of prey -- Species accounts -- Osprey -- Kites. Hook-billed kite -- Swallow-tailed kite -- White-tailed kite ...

These are the tenth and eleventh in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued as follows: 107, 113, 121, ...

CHICAGO — August 14, 2025 — The 66th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS’s) Check-list of North American Birds, published today in Ornithology, includes several significant ...