The red-tailed hawk is a beautiful soaring bird that takes to the air with wide wings and tail and will circle overhead in easy view of the observer. When turning away, they may show a flash of ...

The adult female red-shouldered hawk perches near her nest. While red-shoulders don’t generally have huge territories, this bird probably ranges as far as the nearby Olentangy River.

An adult red-shouldered hawk has some differences when compared to the red-tailed hawk. Red-shouldered hawks have a black and white-striped tail while red-tailed hawks have rusty red tails.

Adult red-shouldered hawks are beautiful, colorful birds with dark-and-white checkered wings, reddish shoulders and a pale orange breast. Its tail is dark with narrow white bands.

Gabby Hrycyshyn, volunteer coordinator at The Raptor Conservancy of Virginia, prepares to release an adult red-shouldered hawk that spent three months in recovery and rehabilitation, back into the ...

Red-shouldered hawks are gorgeous medium-sized, solid birds, smaller than a red-tailed but bigger than a broad-winged hawk. They are colorful, with dark-and-white checkered wings, warm reddish ...

Although red-shouldered hawks soar, they are prone to hunting from a perch in wooded sites. When prey is spotted, the hawk rockets down and snatches its victim.

Last spring, a pair of red-shouldered hawks raised two young in a nest around 50 feet above the ground in a cedar elm tree on our place. The tree was near a trail through our woods, and I often ...