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 ...

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 ...

The uplifted wing of a red-tailed hawk catches the late afternoon sunlight as the majestic bird lifts off from a tree along Empire Grade near the West Entrance to UC Santa Cruz. This hawk can be found ...

A baby red-tailed hawk, center, was plucked by bald eagle parents and is now sharing a nest in San Simeon with two eaglets, seen on May 26, 2024. Bill Franciscovish Strange bird bedfellows have been ...