Recently, Ms. Spicer from the Bowmanstown area sent an email to me regarding her sighting of a Northern harrier. I confirmed ...

These creatures of contradiction aren’t hawks and aren’t the most active at night, but nighthawks are birds worth knowing ...

On a frosty October morning, a quiet yard and missing songbirds reveal the presence of a calm, young Cooper’s hawk perched ...

In Iowa, 212 bird species nest throughout the state during nesting season. Nesting season is a great opportunity for first-time birdwatchers to make observations and start identifying species. Expert ...

As I have stated time and again, my passion for the outdoors began with an unbridled fascination with reptiles. Growing up as a budding naturalist, I was not the most avid birdwatcher, but even at an ...

Local raptor expert Tim Driscoll banded the bird in 2007, when she was in “first-year-juvenile” plumage. She was last seen in Grand Forks in late summer 2022, which makes her a bit more than 16 years ...

I was absentmindedly gazing out the living room window when a red-tailed hawk, half the size of a bald eagle, plunged from the air with talons thrust out like arrowheads to attack a critter on the ...

Clinton Nienhaus and Kristina Dexter have seen tens of thousands of raptors fly over during five years on staff (Nienhaus) or as a volunteer (Dexter) at Duluth's Hawk Ridge. But what they experienced ...