Local police, along with state and federal wildlife authorities, are looking into an apparent case of animal cruelty involving a protected adult red-tailed hawk discovered in a Paxton backyard ...

This adult red-tailed hawk is easily identified by its prominent red tail feathers. Immature red-tailed hawks do not have red tails. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON— Editor’s note: This column was ...

I’ve been seeing more red-tailed hawks out and about these last days of autumn. While driving along a busy road, I’ve seen one soaring in the air spreading out its wide, rufous tail and broad wings.

Red-tailed hawks are year-round, common residents in the Willamette Valley. In winter, many red-tailed hawks migrate here from the north. Many of those migrants are juvenile birds whose tails are not ...

If there has been any theme to this winter it has been cold. For the first time in years, the temperatures have dropped below freezing and generally remained there for weeks on end. Back when I was a ...