Readers often email me this time of year, sometimes with accompanying photos, to find out the identity of a sleek, grayish, hawklike bird. What they are usually seeing is a Mississippi kite, and ...

Sleek, graceful, pearly-gray 15-inch-long falcon-like birds with three-foot wingspans, black tails and red eyes — Mississippi kites, as the name suggests, typically inhabit southern climes. In 2007, ...

A Mississippi kite nest was found with one chick, and at least three adults were seen in the same area in Newmarket on July 23.This sighting was included in the New Hampshire Audubon's rare bird alert ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A homeowner in Midlothian was in for a surprise when they found out the “baby owl” they spotted in their backyard was actually a species of bird that didn’t belong in Virginia.

MANKATO — On a balmy late August day, Jim Amundson, of Lake Crystal, was settling into his daily routine of counting raptors passing through the Minnesota River Valley at Land of Memories Park in ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - This week's bird will be the Mississippi Kite. This is a graceful, medium-sized hawk with long wings and a squared tail that is common throughout central, southern, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine Wildlife Hospital of Louisiana has already treated more ...

For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two of Georgia’s — and the nation’s — most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near ...

Readers often email me this time of year, sometimes with accompanying photos, to find out the identity of a sleek, grayish, hawklike bird. What they are usually seeing is a Mississippi kite, and ...