Police are investigating after a red-tailed hawk was found in Paxton, Massachusetts, with the feathers of its wings and tail ...
A wildlife rehabilitator caring for the injured raptor said it could take two or more years for the feathers to return and give flight.
It also has a special weapon, a needled beak that enables it to probe deep into crevices for larvae and eggs of insects ...
I saw one of the most beautiful birds of prey in North America this week, as it hovered over a fallowed field north of Highline Road: a White-tailed Kite. These striking birds are among my favorites ...
Learn all about bird wings and flight feathers ... other than a strange missing cardinal tail feather? Check out these ...
“When I first held the bird, I noticed that every single feather on both its wings and tail were sheared and look to be intentionally cut off,” Jess Zorge, of Raptor Tales Rescue, sai ...