Rebecca Rosen pleaded as the hawk refused to budge from a hotel balcony to retrieve a chunk of mouse meat off the gloved arm of a guest at the five-star Rosewood Sand Hill resort in Silicon Valley.

The hawk was looking away from me ... of the windows and was mildly amazed by this development. A chickadee eating raw chicken? After the initial surprise wore off I grabbed my camera and headed ...

The “chicken hawk” of colonial America, this medium-sized accipiter is a common sight at home bird feeders across the country, swooping in to nab an unwary dove or jay. Females are larger and ...