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

For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two of Georgia’s — and the nation’s — most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near ...

Swallow-tailed kites are a migratory bird species that can be seen in Florida for a portion of the year. Swallow-tailed kites make their nests in tall trees and are social birds, often congregating in ...

What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor with a little curved beak on a small dove-like head? You get the gray-headed kite. The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) ...

Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture. As we’ve ...

Sleek, graceful, pearly-gray 15-inch-long falcon-like birds with three-foot wingspans, black tails and red eyes — Mississippi kites, as the name suggests, typically inhabit southern climes. In 2007, ...

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, ...

Here's a checklist of birds that will help you get to know Southwest Florida. Bonus: They're all super-cool critters who live in amazing places ...

A red kite, or Milvus, a medium-sized bird of prey that is rare in Turkey, was spotted in İstanbul. The bird from the Accipitridae family, also known as the Hawk or Vulture family, was sighted by a ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News award-winning photographer shares his favorite locations in SWFL to photograph birds.