MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Late July and early August is usually a relatively slow time for birding in Alabama. For most birds, the breeding season has ended, and it's too soon for most migrants, such as ...

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 ...

What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor with a little curved beak on a small dove-like head? You get the gray-headed kite. The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) ...

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 ...

Every day, birds fall from Delhi’s polluted skies. Nowhere in the world is the black kite, a medium-size bird of prey from the hawk family, found in such high concentrations. Its numbers have grown in ...