Morris Island in Chatham is seeing an uptick in hikers as the year gets off to a start. What rare visitor is drawing them?

These beautiful birds are North America's most common hawks. They are found all over the continent, in Central America, and in the West Indies. The first of these hawks to be scientifically ...

The “chicken hawk” of colonial America, this medium-sized accipiter is a common sight at home bird feeders across the country, swooping in to nab an unwary dove or jay. Females are larger and ...

I can’t even describe how improbable it is." It's even rare to see the hawks in their native habitat, especially the dark morphs, which make up only about 10% of the species' population ...

Neither species had been recorded on the site before, making it an exciting discovery for the Hawk and Owl Trust owned nature reserve and Natural England, which funded the new habitat. The project ...