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

Remember how the broad-winged hawk is the smallest Buteo hawk? Well, the sharp-shinned hawk is the smallest hawk overall! At their largest, they weigh less than 8 ounces. That’s around the same ...

Driving on Vermont’s interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular ...

Sharp-shinned hawk is smaller and has a square tail. Widespread through United States and southern Canada, more commonly seen in suburbs, probably due to reforestation in the East. Breeding ...

I was walking along a short but windy trail in southern New England the other day in search of overwintering warblers. This ...

On Tuesday alone, they counted a mix of nearly 4,000 birds of 42 species, including nearly 2,000 cedar waxwings, nearly 1,500 blue jays and 83 sharp-shinned hawks. Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve is the ...

Destinations like the Camargue, the Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, Kruger National Park, and Everglades National Park serve as ...

Some hawk species hunt other birds and will visit feeders in winter, hoping to catch a tasty meal. One is the sharp-shinned hawk, our smallest accipiter. Raptors in this genus have short, broad wings ...