The red-tailed hawk is a beautiful soaring bird that takes to the air with wide wings and tail and will circle overhead in easy view of the observer. When turning away, they may show a flash of ...

From 100 feet in the air, a red-tailed hawk can see a mouse on the ground. This hawk also eats snakes and chipmunks, anything that weighs from an ounce to about five pounds. It’s easy to ...

I have a friend who measures outings in red-tailed hawks. “It was a five-hawk drive,” she’ll exclaim after visiting a bucolic setting. That’s an easy image to conjure: fierce hawks perched ...