Every year as mid-August approaches, an office pool of sorts pops up around Hawk Mountain Sanctuary as hawk enthusiasts try to predict the first raptor that will be sighted on the first official count ...

Fall is for the birds!

Now that it’s the middle of September yellow leaves are either on or falling off many different trees. Virginia creeper vines are getting redder and so are poison ivy vines. And wild sunflowers, ...

We recently got a little snow, but where I live it wasn’t much. But weather-wise, it’s gotten cold, and it’s about to get a lot colder. And we’re finally to the point where even a pot of pansies on ...

We recently got a little snow, but where I live it wasn’t much. But weather-wise, it’s gotten cold and it’s about to get a lot colder. And we’re finally to the point where even a pot of pansies on the ...

“I’ve got a sharpie in the net and need some help,” came a message over the radio at the bird banding headquarters at Camas National Wildlife Refuge last Monday morning. One of the three workers ...

Think you saw a sharp-shinned hawk? Learn about this raptor's field marks, habitat and range, nesting habits, diet and more.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky turned to the platform iNaturalist for data on two hawk species. They examined nearly 80,000 images of Cooper's hawks and sharp-shinned hawks submitted by ...

A common forest raptor around Sisters is the Sharp-shinned Hawk [Accipiter stiatus], which is America's smallest hawk. They are named for their sharply keeled, featherless lower legs and their average ...