What began as a surprising bird sighting quickly became a community vigil, with neighbors, birders and a wildlife biologist all quietly rooting for one small raptor learning to fly far from where its ...

The Palm Springs Police Department is seeking help to locate Ulises Beltre Terrero, a 91-year-old man with dementia, who went missing on Wednesday.

I was driving home from Sturgeon Bay when, a half mile before reaching my home, I saw a large dark bird soaring over a field. I stopped my car and watched as it got nearer, thinking it might be a hawk ...

When I became serious about birding in the 1990s, I wasn’t thinking about milestone birds. Then they started creeping up. The first biggie was No. 500, a Varied Thrush in Evanston. And before that, my ...

Swallow-tailed Kites are beautiful birds of prey, threatened by forest habitat loss and human activities. The population of these kites is limited to seven Southeastern U.S. states, with a significant ...

Florida has 1,350 miles of Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coastline. Add up the barrier islands and tidal wetland areas and the shoreline total increases to over 8,000 miles. California has 840 ...

Josh Duis of Niles and three other birders were lucky to catch a glimpse of a swallow-tailed kite on Aug. 6 at Warren Dunes State Park. Duis and friends were conducting a hawk watch at Mount Randall ...

South Alabama’s swamps, wetlands and prairies are home to one of the most graceful fliers in the bird world. The swallow-tailed kite lurks in the tops of trees and soars over open fields. Like their ...

If you’re in Alabama’s Black Belt this summer, perhaps for this weekend’s birding festival, you’ll almost certainly get to see this haunting bird circling overhead. “It’s like going to an air show ...

More than 8,000 acres of woodlands that attract rare birds near South Carolina’s coast will be protected from development under a $34.2 million conservation deal that will eventually put the property ...