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, ...

DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

Look up in the sky this fall and you may see hawks flying overhead. This season, thousands of hawks are passing through metro Detroit as they travel south for the winter. September and October mark ...

Have you heard of Raccoon Ridge? It sounds like the name of a fancy condo development or a war movie. It's not. Raccoon Ridge is a hawk watch above the Delaware River Gap in western New Jersey — and ...

While I was at the Cape May Autumn Birding Festival, there was major chatter about a Swainson’s hawk spotted in the area, which excited all of us birders! But as I wondering how the heck people knew ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota is home to one of the world's premier bird observation sites. This time of year, the airspace above Hawk Ridge on the western edge of Lake Superior draws tens of thousands of ...

Experts agree: Autumn is a great time for bird-watching, and Delaware is one of the best places in the world for it. “There are more birds than any other time of year because you are seeing both ...

DULUTH, MINN. - The sky above Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory on Sept. 18 was gray, woolen and seemingly static. Lake Superior, though, was rocking with an east wind; whitecaps pocked its surface. And ...