In one of the better videos on the internet this week, a hungry hawk gets in a fight with a defensive mother hen. The real dispute, however, unfolds between a guy who wants to rescue the drowning hawk ...

I grew up with bird names now long gone. We had the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk and duck hawk. These are now the American kestrel, merlin and peregrine falcon. We also had the marsh hawk, now the ...

The slate-grey and black-barred peregrine falcon (duck hawk) is one of the speediest and most powerful of all flying organisms. It flies on the level at 60 m.p.h., dives at 180, knocks out its quarry ...

Have you ever heard that expression "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it must be a duck?" Well, it's not true. It's also not true that all ducks are mallards. These ...

Northern goshawk (accipiter gentilis) searching for food and flying in the forest of Noord Brabant in the Netherlands© Henk Bogaard/Shutterstock.com Hawks have long been symbols of power, precision, ...

Hawks visit our backyard feeders in Essex almost every day — often more than once a day. With all the snow cover that we have had, and with all the birds congregating at the bird feeders, many ...

When a flock of teal or broadbill flares past, most duck gunners would swear— especially if they have missed their shots— that the birds were moving 75 to 100 m. p. h. Last week May Thacher Cook, ...