A juvenile Red-tailed Hawk is recovering at the Chattahoochee Nature Center after being hit by a car in Marietta; it suffered a concussion and eye injury. A box turtle from Douglasville was brought in ...
I’ve been seeing more red-tailed hawks out and about these last days of autumn. While driving along a busy road, I’ve seen one soaring in the air spreading out its wide, rufous tail and broad wings.
Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it's almost always obvious when you've seen a hawk. But which hawk? Red-tailed hawks are widespread across most of the ...
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 high on ...
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How to identify a Cooper’s hawk

Fast, focused and fierce, the Cooper's hawk is built for the chase. Learn what a Cooper's hawk looks like and sounds like and ...
Red Tail hawks have nested in the SaddleBrooke area for many years and for the last 15 years I have followed different nests and photographed the raising of little chicks until they leave the nest.
LET ME REPEAT THAT BECAUSE YOU HEARD IT RIGHT. A HUGE YOU CAN HEAR A REACTION TO A HUGE BIRD, A HAWK HEADING RIGHT FOR THAT MOM AND HER LITTLE GIRL. A VERY CLOSE CALL. OUR JOHN ATWATER JUST SPOKE WITH ...
Many people enjoy hawks. Their fierce independence and obviously untamed nature evoke a wildness that we are often lacking in our daily lives, similar to the “fierce green fire” that writer and ...