A female Swainson’s hawk perches on a fence post. Notice the dark upper chest and head have virtually the same coloring. This is typical of female light morphs. and the vast majority Swainson’s hawks ...

Swainson's hawk is an iconic bird of the plains -- on two continents. The birds nest on the Great Plains of North America, and they spend the winter on the Pampas of Argentina. This is a distance of ...

The Swainson’s hawk is a raptor of the open fields and prairies of the central and western regions of the country and a rare visitor to New England. It is a member of the buteo family – large hawks ...

Nick G. Liadis of Bird Lab (left) and David Yeany II of the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program discovered the Swainson's warbler breeding in Western Pennsylvania. “This is definitely a career ...

Soaring in wide circles over hay fields or perched on distant fence posts or utility poles, large hawks are a common sight throughout Montana. But few people recognize that we have many kinds of hawks ...

Among the hundreds of visitors to Duluth's Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory over the weekend was one very uncommon guest. A Swainson's hawk was caught and banded at the birding site in eastern Duluth on ...

On Saturday, June 4, biologist and Swainson’s hawk expert Jim Estep will lead participants on a countywide search for this California threatened species and well as other raptors. Estep has conducted ...

ENOCH, Iron County — Enoch Wildlife Rescue received a phone call from a person at Dixie Power in late June that went something like this: "Mr. Tyner, we're dealing with an issue. There is a hawk nest ...