DULUTH — The hawks, tens of thousands of them each autumn, have been flying over Hawk Ridge here for centuries, maybe millennia, but it wasn’t always safe passage. In the 1930s and '40s, and probably ...

The woman at the opposite end of the phone line was — well, she was hysterical. Absolutely enraged, and that’s putting it mildly. Whenever she’d pause to take a breath, I’d seize the opportunity to ...

Bird watchers aim their binoculars to follow the migration of hawks over Hawk Ridge. The observatory is hosting its annual Hawk Weekend Sept. 15-17 that will attract thousands of birdwatchers as the ...

The evidence is usually obvious. A pile of brown feathers indicates a mourning dove. Red feathers mean cardinal. Yellow suggests a goldfinch. Whenever I find a bunch of feathers in the yard, I’m ...

Fall is when hawks get most of the attention. The fall raptor migration is an amazing natural phenomenon, so it’s not surprising that talk of hawks dominate the bird world in the fall. Winter, however ...

For the past few months, the AT&T cell tower downtown has doubled as a bird graveyard. A heap of nylon netting inside the tower has snarled several birds. So far, the dead birds have been only pigeons ...

For the past three years, a family of red-tailed hawks has taken up residence and built a nest on top of a light pole on the northwest corner of Memorial Stadium on the Kansas University campus. The ...

A neighbor had been hearing some strange sounds for more than a day; she was pretty sure they were bird calls and asked if I would come check it out. As I walked toward her house, I heard it, too, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A hawk in western Minnesota is the first wild bird in the state to test positive for the bird flu virus since the beginning of an outbreak that's killed more than 15 million ...

"Being with Mabel, it's an honest encounter with life." Roadside Attractions / Lionsgate have revealed the first official ...

Biologist Bracken Brown couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the seemingly out-of-place bird soaring through the sky. “I ...

The University of Iowa, often called UI or simply Iowa, is a renowned public research university in Iowa City, Iowa. Established in 1847, it is the oldest university in the state and holds a prominent ...