A red-shouldered hawk chick in its nest. Its two nest mates are hunkered down. While red-shouldered hawks don’t sing like songbirds, they do deliver a loud piercing scream.

"If a red-tailed hawk comes in with an injury, he has a good chance of pulling through," Rogers said. "Often, the red-shouldered hawk cannot survive the same type of injury.

But this young red-shouldered hawk appears to be doing no more than chilling on a fence rail and yet, he is being dive-bombed by a tiny bird, who, due to their relative size, looks more gnat than ...

Finally, the hawk, dubbed Lucky by the delegate, was adjudged ready to take to the air, and about 4 p.m. Saturday, it was released, swooping quickly into the trees.

Gabby Hrycyshyn, volunteer coordinator at The Raptor Conservancy of Virginia, prepares to release an adult red-shouldered hawk that spent three months in recovery and rehabilitation, back into the ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – Southwest and Central Virginia Wildlife Center will be releasing a red-shoulder Hawk back into the wild after being admitted as a patient on January 15, 2025. The Hawk was ...

Red-shouldered hawks have abandoned their historic nesting sites along the river’s main stem, said Jon “Hawk” Stravers of McGregor, who has studied the secretive raptors for the past four ...

Red-shouldered hawks are equipped to hunt and are exclusively carnivores. Most native small to medium sized animals are a potential meal, including mammals, amphibians, reptiles, insects and other ...

Red-shouldered hawks are large birds. Their wingspan is three to nearly four feet, and their head-to-tail tip length is seventeen inches to two feet, although they weigh less than 2 pounds.

SALISBURY — Everything came up red Friday afternoon. Ann Powlas drove a red car. Inside the red car was a red box. Inside the red box was a red-shouldered hawk. And the hawk was seeing red ...