Prefer hawks and sparrows to songbirds? October is your month for bird watching. While songbird migrations end in September, October is the peak migration month for hawks and sparrows, said College of ...

Predation at the nest is the largest source of reproductive failure for many species of passerine birds, and so it is important that we understand the details surrounding such predation events. With ...

When sighting one or more of these swift and agile raptors in our yard became a near-daily event last week, I began to contemplate penning this month’s column about them. Then one morning brought a ...

Looking at our backyard bird feeding station on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there was not a bird in sight. What’s going on? It didn’t take me long to spot the issue. A sharp-shinned hawk was perched ...

During the fall hunting season, Al Jordan is out nearly every day -- looking for squirrels, rabbits, ducks, wild turkey, mink and other small game. But he doesn't carry a gun or a bow. Jordan, of ...

What exactly is a Chicken Hawk? Or a Sparrow Hawk, or Pigeon Hawk? Or even a Duck Hawk, for that matter? You don't hear the terms very often any longer, but old bird books actually list those as the ...

The sparrowhawk, one of the UK's smallest birds of prey, which is also threatened in the UK, has been spotted near Southampton.