DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

DULUTH — The hawks, tens of thousands of them each autumn, have been flying over Hawk Ridge here for centuries, maybe millennia, but it wasn’t always safe passage. In the 1930s and '40s, and probably ...

Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota is home to one of the world's premier bird observation sites. This time of year, the airspace above Hawk Ridge on the western edge of Lake Superior draws tens of thousands of ...

While I was at the Cape May Autumn Birding Festival, there was major chatter about a Swainson’s hawk spotted in the area, which excited all of us birders! But as I wondering how the heck people knew ...

Apparently, humans aren’t the only animals that love avocados. In a rare sighting, a red-shouldered hawk was observed eating an avocado in California. The raptor’s snack raised questions about ...

The quiet of a Sunday morning was jolted by the sudden explosion of the quail flock that had been leisurely enjoying my garden seed feeder. The reason soon became apparent. Right behind the fleeing ...

Laura Noe was starting her morning as she often does, watching the sparrows, doves and cardinals who come to the bird feeder she keeps in her Jefferson Park backyard, when she sensed a sudden change. ...