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 ...

A red-tailed hawk lifts off from a branch in search of food on Tuesday at Lighthouse Field State Beach. About these birds, the Cornell Lab’s All About Birds website says, “This is probably the most ...

At the Mt. Feake Cemetery it is a quiet day, with no other people about for the moment, when my friend spots an enormous bird on a stone in the near vicinity. The large red-tailed hawk flies off to a ...

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 ...

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.

It was a merciless fight, if the picture is any indication. A gray rat snake and a young red-tailed hawk were tangling, and a photo shared by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency shows the bird’s ...