With talons spread, a swallow-tailed kite closes in on an insect (center, upper right) for a quick bite on the fly. Anyone who sees one of these marvelous, soaring hawks is asked to asked to jot down ...

Swallow-tailed kites are soaring again above the fields of Allendale and surrounding area, where they gather in large numbers every summer from mid-July to mid-August. The big black and white birds ...

There was quite a stir this week among birdwatchers after the sighting of a swallow-tailed kite, a migratory bird of prey that hasn't been seen in Shawnee County since the 1970s. Though the birds are ...

They dart and dash through the sky, hovering in the air one second before plummeting from the cloud plumes the next. Swallow-tailed kites are arguably the most acrobatic and athletic of birds found in ...

The aerial show was awesome – swooping, gliding, banking, rolling upside down and other airborne acrobatics. We were not watching a Blue Angels air show but instead a gathering of swallow-tailed kites ...

Majestic, elegant and the coolest bird on Earth are some of the nicknames given to the swallow-tailed kite. Identifiable partly by its forked tail and best known for its aerial acrobatics, this black ...

We had been cruising U.S. 90 between Liberty and Dayton in the last week of July looking for swallow-tailed kites on their annual migration south. The birds rank among my wife Kathy's favorites to ...

Here's who to email or call to report a sighting. Sightings have been reported in these Mississippi counties. Information about sightings helps biologists monitor, protect nesting neighborhoods.

In a poison ivy–filled thicket under loblolly pines, Jennifer Coulson bushwhacked to the base of the tree where swallow-tailed kites had built a nest. She rummaged through leaf litter to find a clump ...

The aerial show was awesome — swooping, gliding, banking, rolling upside down and other airborne acrobatics. We were not watching a Blue Angels air show but instead a gathering of swallow-tailed kites ...