While Mandarin Patinkin, as he has been dubbed, has hogged the limelight, a genuinely rare raptor from Central and South America has arrived from out of the blue in Maine. The great black hawk had ...

Yard pigeons have it rough these days. First it was that owl. Now a large duck hawk has moved into the Memorial Hall tower, and a screech owl lives in Cambridge Common. The owls and hawk are probably ...

When a flock of teal or broadbill flares past, most duck gunners would swear— especially if they have missed their shots— that the birds were moving 75 to 100 m. p. h. Last week May Thacher Cook, ...