The bald eagle is one of the most recognizable birds in the world. As a symbol of strength and freedom, it has been admired for centuries. Beyond its striking appearance, this powerful predator ...

A: These tawny owls with their dramatically outlined eyes spend their time in wide open spaces in their daily hunt for small rodents. You almost surely won’t see them in a city setting but you might ...

including aquatic and sea birds and birds of prey like bald eagles, vultures and the endangered Andean condor. Elsewhere in the city, a red tailed hawk in the Bronx and a great horned owl in ...

Q. I saw a photo on Facebook of a rattlesnake with its head looking up at the base of an oak tree and its enormous body stretched out in the ...

Use expert tips and a helpful chart to improve your hawk identification skills. Plus, learn about the common types of hawks ...

THE world is home to thousands of bird species, each known for their remarkable intelligence and cognitive abilities.

The City Council unanimously voted to ban the use of a class of rat poisons known as second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, or SGARs, on city-owned property after a public hearing ...

When America's Founding Fathers affixed a bald eagle to the great seal of the United States in 1782, they likely had no idea they were highlighting what would become one of the greatest wildlife ...

A welcome winter thaw before Christmas called me into the woods. My dog and I followed our usual hiking path, up and down hills in the remnant Big Woods adjacent to where I live. The top layer of ...

This fierce but small raptor is a familiar sight across Latin American landscapes, where it perches confidently on roadside poles and fence posts to scan for prey. The Roadside Hawk is a compact ...

giving it a hawk-like silhouette. Its upperparts are dark brown with white spotting, while the underparts are white with dense brown barring. The facial disc is pale with a black border. The bill is ...

Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film 'Black Hawk Down' told the story of 1993’s deadly Battle of Mogadishu. Here is a look back at ...