Swainson’s hawks have a diet that is a little different from many other hawk species. During the nesting season, they will eat snakes, lizards and small mammals, such as ground squirrels, pocket ...

VACAVILLE (KPIX 5) -- There's a protected hawk bringing bridge construction to a halt in the Bay Area. The protected Swainson's Hawk is delaying much needed repairs to some Interstate 80 overpasses.

I was lucky indeed to be part of Ohio’s first record, on July 1, 1983. A gorgeous Swainson’s hawk flew low over Bruce Peterjohn, Don Tumblin and me as we stood awestruck on a dike near Lake Erie.

The nearly $3 million balance remaining of the fund that had been set aside for Swainson’s hawk and farmland mitigation was absorbed in the county’s general fund. “We are suing to enforce Kern ...

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 ...

Hawk watchers in Panama City counted 900,000 soaring migrants (mostly Swainson’s hawks and turkey vultures) passing overhead on a single day in November 2013.

Swainson’s Hawks are large, in fact they are the 2nd largest of the 8 species of the genus Buteo that occur in Texas, rivaled in size only by the slightly larger Red-tailed Hawk.

Transportation officials are finding ways to resolve Swainson's hawk issues to keep the $64 million Soscol Junction traffic relief project along Highway 29 on-track for a May start.

The annual great migration of Swainson’s hawks is in full swing, with thousands of the majestic birds having flown through the Borrego Valley in recent weeks on their way from South America to ...

A Swainson's hawk was caught and banded at the birding site in eastern Duluth on Saturday afternoon. It's just the second time in the 40-year history of Hawk Ridge that a Swainson's has been ...

But after months of rehabilitation, it did. On Wednesday, Thompson released the Swainson’s hawk back into the wild after around a 120-day stay in rehab at Liberty Wildlife in Phoenix.