The Swainson’s hawk is a raptor of the open fields and prairies of the central and western regions of the country and a rare visitor to New England. It is a member of the buteo family – large hawks ...

Orion, the Swainson’s hawk, has a bum wing. Not that you’d notice. Perched regally on his caretaker’s hand at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Carmichael, the 5-year-old red-brown speckled raptor is a ...

ENOCH, Iron County — Enoch Wildlife Rescue received a phone call from a person at Dixie Power in late June that went something like this: "Mr. Tyner, we're dealing with an issue. There is a hawk nest ...

THIS MUST BE my favorite time of year. We’ve emerged from hibernation and all danger of frost has passed. The birds have returned from the distant South to our forests to nest. The ones that survived ...

What Does a Swainson’s Thrush Look Like? “What is this bird?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Mark Rice of Dallas, Texas. Birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “The compact shape, brown back, ...