Every September, solitary broad-winged hawks undergo a dramatic transformation, abandoning their reclusive forest lives to swirl together in massive, sky-filling formations. What drives these ...

Another bird of prey is back in the wild after receiving care at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center. The Center released ...

Now that it’s the middle of September yellow leaves are either on or falling off many different trees. Virginia creeper vines are getting redder and so are poison ivy vines. And wild sunflowers, ...

We are fortunate to enjoy not only four ecological biomes coming together across our vast state, but we are also blessed with ...

You may recall a broad-winged hawk named May, who in autumn 2024 captured the hearts of nature lovers along the East Coast when she flew across Florida during Hurricane Milton – and temporarily went ...

Every year as mid-August approaches, an office pool of sorts pops up around Hawk Mountain Sanctuary as hawk enthusiasts try to predict the first raptor that will be sighted on the first official count ...

Broad-winged hawks from throughout eastern North America migrate to South America each fall, and their migration takes them through the narrow parts of Central America, where they crowd into what has ...

DULUTH, MINN. - The sky above Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory on Sept. 18 was gray, woolen and seemingly static. Lake Superior, though, was rocking with an east wind; whitecaps pocked its surface. And ...