While observing your feeders, you may be startled by a “blue flash” that suddenly appears as if from out of nowhere, snatches one of your birds in its talons and disappears. The “blue flash” will be ...

When sighting one or more of these swift and agile raptors in our yard became a near-daily event last week, I began to contemplate penning this month’s column about them. Then one morning brought a ...

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"What kind of hawk is this that's eating my birds?" That's a recent question from a reader. And it's not uncommon. Sometimes readers attach phone picturs of the predatory birds. These hawks are ...

Technically speaking, families of all animals are classified into sub-groups. Such a sub-group is called a genus. The accipiter is a genus of the hawk family comprised of three species. The smallest ...

On Veterans Day, I was sitting at my kitchen window with a delicious mug of freshly brewed coffee, a comfortable seat and freshly washed windows to look through. All I needed to do was wait and watch.

Both the sharp-shinned and the Cooper’s hawk are common in and around Santa Fe, but it can be difficult to tell them apart. The biggest difference between them is size. Cooper’s hawks are about 15 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With their broad wingspans and sharp talons, hawks are some of the most regal birds in the skies. But beyond their powerful ...

Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks have been arriving here since mid-August to spend the winter, and their numbers will increase by November. Readers have been sending photographs of these hawks in ...

The Sharp-shinned Hawk has also been called "pigeon hawk," "small stub-winged bullet hawk" and "little blue darter." "Sharp-shinned" refers to the flattened, thin tarsus or shank, not exactly a ...

Arthur Bent in his "Life Histories of North American Birds" begins the entry on Cooper’s hawks rather judgmentally with: “If the sharp-shinned hawk is a bloodthirsty villain, this large edition ...