red-tailed hawk

ITHACA — Birds of prey in the Empire State are in trouble due to poisons used to kill rodents, according to a recent study by clinical researchers at ...

PORTVILLE — The Pfeiffer Nature Center on Lillibridge Road played an essential role in the rescue of a distressed juvenile red-tailed hawk last week. ...

Except for a year in Denver, Colo., and a decade in New York City, I’ve lived in Western New York all my life, and yet I still allow myself to believe...

There are lots of good reasons to participate in bird counts. For one, bird counts promote citizen science. For another, bird counts help spot populat...

In the last column I revealed that if I had just stayed home I would have seen more birds than I had after driving all over the countryside — and it h...

There is a comical reality about birding that is perhaps best depicted in a cartoon that appeared in The New Yorker magazine years ago. In the cartoon...

There are lots of ways to mark the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. The conventional method is the start of astronomical autumn, also called...