Death Valley may be having a boom wildflower year, but Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in eastern San Diego County is having a boom of another kind: hawks.

VACAVILLE (KPIX 5) -- There's a protected hawk bringing bridge construction to a halt in the Bay Area. The protected Swainson's Hawk is delaying much needed repairs to some Interstate 80 overpasses.

I’m featuring the Swainson’s Hawk this week as this bird will be moving through the state in great numbers during the next five or six weeks.

Thus, when a Swainson’s hawk appeared in a Holmes County field on Sept. 17, it was big news. This bird was no fly-by, either. It stuck tight for the next five days, spending much time in its ...

Transportation officials are finding ways to resolve Swainson's hawk issues to keep the $64 million Soscol Junction traffic relief project along Highway 29 on-track for a May start. A hawk nesting ...

But after months of rehabilitation, it did. On Wednesday, Thompson released the Swainson’s hawk back into the wild after around a 120-day stay in rehab at Liberty Wildlife in Phoenix.. Without a ...

New Mexico State University service workers began taking down the beginnings of Swainson hawk nests after reports of students being attacked. Every morning for two weeks this month, NMSU service ...

FRISCO, Colo. (KKTV) - Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers said a Swainson’s Hawk was found in East Monte Vista who had the West Nile Virus as a baby. The hawk spent almost a full year at Color ...

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 ...