RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A homeowner in Midlothian was in for a surprise when they found out the “baby owl” they spotted in their backyard was actually a species of bird that didn’t belong in Virginia.

Look up to find a Mississippi kite soaring overhead, just like flying a kite. Plus, learn where to find this raptor, and what it eats.

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - This week's bird will be the Mississippi Kite. This is a graceful, medium-sized hawk with long wings and a squared tail that is common throughout central, southern, and ...

With the annual Pilot Mountain Hawk Watch only a week away, my birding focus is shifting to raptors. For three weeks in September, local birders scan the skies at the mountain for migrating hawks, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Swooping down from high above the treetops, the Mississippi kite, a hawk-like bird of prey, dive-bombed a perceived threat on the ground. The kite came from behind its target, a jogger ...

MANKATO — On a balmy late August day, Jim Amundson, of Lake Crystal, was settling into his daily routine of counting raptors passing through the Minnesota River Valley at Land of Memories Park in ...

Now that it’s the last week of May the spring migration of raptors is almost done around here. Actually it’s been mostly over for a few weeks except for a late hawk or osprey here and there. Recently, ...

'Undoubtedly, it was an inventive method to keep the baby warm,' said the Wild West Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Amarillo. When a baby hawk was left out in the cold last weekend, a Texas family ...