Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it's almost always obvious when you've seen a ...

A common hawk of wet ... reach the tip of the tail. Adult: brown above with lighter feather edges and some streaking on head. Rufous on the upperwing coverts gives the “red shoulders.” ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous ... Dark morph: adult has an all-dark body with dark wing coverts and silvery flight feathers, the dark tail has a wide white band. The juvenile is dark ...

A red-tailed hawk that had been reportedly shot in Cheshire two weeks ago has died. A Place Called Hope, a nonprofit birds of prey rehabilitation center, found a young red-tailed hawk with two pellets ...