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

The Cooper’s hawk, a medium-sized accipiter, also visits bird feeders in winter. Very similar in appearance to the ...

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...

Driving on Vermont’s Interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular ...

A Cooper’s hawk is an accipiter. That group includes the larger and quite rare goshawk and the smaller sharp-shinned hawk. All can fly rapidly through the woods with great agility. Diets of various ...

The Sharp-shinned Hawk is a small, agile raptor with short, rounded wings and a long, square-tipped tail. Adults display blue-gray upperparts, with rufous-barred white underparts. The head is dark, ...

The Cooper’s hawk, a medium-sized accipiter, also visits bird feeders in winter. Very similar in appearance to the sharp-shinned hawk, it can take on larger prey such as pigeons, doves and squirrels.